Rahul Kachhara
Account Delivery - Associate Director
Abu Dhabi
Summary
Experienced professional with a strong background in project and account management, process improvement. Adept at developing and implementing strategies to enhance efficiency and performance. Passionate about driving business growth, fostering a positive work environment. Successfully managed a large special account exceeding $500 million.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
12
12
Certifications
3
3
Languages
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Awards
- Certificate of Appreciation: Awarded by Program Director of Transport for NSW for excellent performance in FTN refactoring and executing the new pipeline CR Process.
- Key Performer Award: Recognized for the first successful go-live of a complex application at Wipro Limited.
- Collaboration Star Award: Received for completing the sales process for a 136 Million Dirham contract at G42.
- Superstar Award: Awarded for managing the biggest client account, generating a revenue of over 200 Million Dollar at G42.
Work History
Associate Director - Special Accounts Delivery
Core42
04.2022 - Current
- Lead $500M national-interest cloud delivery account, managing $200M+ annual revenue with full P&L ownership across private and restricted cloud services.
- Direct multi-phase digital transformation programs and risk-managed migrations, driving compliance and operational excellence in highly secure environments.
- Mentor and lead a 7–10 member team, enhancing performance, cross-skilling, and delivery agility across complex workstreams.
- Serve as primary delivery approver in pre-review governance, ensuring solution readiness before leadership review.
- Act as the business development SPOC for the account leader; collaborate with sales leadership to shape and qualify direct and indirect opportunities.
- Built and institutionalized fast-track exception handling, reducing delivery cycles and aligning departmental KPIs with strategic growth targets.
Senior Program Manager
Rackspace
01.2022 - 03.2022
- Led multi-cloud engagements across AWS, Azure, and GCP, delivering exceptional customer solutions
- Implemented best practices for pipeline management, services estimation, and profitability management
- Acted as an escalation point in deal cycles, providing expertise to ensure delivery quality
- Managed cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products within scope and budget constraints.
Professional Services Project Manager
Datacom
07.2021 - 12.2021
- Coordinated and executed cloud migration and infrastructure upgrade projects
- Collaborated with account executives to engage new customers and develop Statements of Work (SoWs)
- Monitored project budgets, forecasts, and deliverables to ensure project success
- Developed strong relationships with clients, resulting in repeat business and referrals.
Cloud Transformation Project Manager
Wipro Limited
10.2019 - 06.2021
- Led a 100M AUD AWS migration and transformation program, achieving 100% compliance with TfNSW governance and delivery timelines.
- Managed 20+ cross-functional stakeholders across agencies and vendors, ensuring seamless coordination and milestone alignment.
- Directed a hybrid onshore/offshore delivery model, optimizing resource utilization and resolving 50K+ AUD in technical debt.
- Delivered successful migration of 30+ COTS, .NET, and Java applications, including complex SAP/IBM workloads.
- Led a DevOps team of 10, enabling CI/CD pipelines that reduced deployment time by 40%.
- Mentored 3 PMs and 2 graduates, increasing delivery efficiency by 4% and cutting defect resolution time by over 20% in Q2.
Project Manager
Amadeus Software Labs
04.2016 - 05.2019
- Delivered key deployments for Qantas and Malaysia Airlines, including Amadeus Schedule Recovery and self-service airport systems (ACUS, BRS).
- Launched cloud-based MVPs on AWS (Elastic Beanstalk) to accelerate customer platform rollouts.
- Managed SERIFA-Pega COTS delivery across 3 global agile teams, enhancing procurement operations.
- Led TLS 1.2 remediation and secure data migration for 10,000+ VMware ESXi servers to meet PCI compliance.
- Drove cybersecurity uplift by enabling Palo Alto wildfire services and Splunk-based threat detection.
- Completed IT asset and service design rollout across 16 global sites, delivering on time and under budget.
Service Delivery Consultant
Hewlett Packard Enterprises
06.2015 - 04.2016
Technical Project Manager
Orange Business Services
03.2014 - 05.2015
Senior Systems Engineer
Ericsson Global India
08.2010 - 02.2014
Network Engineer
Aegis Tech
10.2009 - 07.2010
Education
Master of Science - Responsible AI
OPIT
Malta 09.2024 - Current
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics
University of Rajasthan
Jodhpur 06.2005 - 08.2009
Skills
Project/Program management
undefinedCertification
PMP
Technical Snapshot
Cloud & Virtualization:
AWS (EC2, S3, FSx, EBS, ALB, AWS Sync), Azure, GCP, Huawei Cloud, VMware (vCenter, ESXi Gen10, vMotion), NVIDIA, AMD
Application & Database Migration:
COTS, Dynamics CRM, .NET, Java, PEGA, GIS, MS SQL, MS Access, DB2, IBM Cognos, IBM Datastage, IBM Integration Bus, Oracle GoldenGate
DevOps & Automation:
Jenkins, JFrog, Bitbucket, XL Release, Terraform, HashiCorp Vault, AWS DevOps Tools
Monitoring & Observability:
Dynatrace, BMC, Holmes, Tableau, SIEM, Skybox, CMDB, Commvault
Security, Compliance & Governance:
PCI DSS, GDPR (PII), TLS 1.2, IDAM, CyberArk, HashiCorp Vault
AI & Modeling Tools (via MSc in Responsible AI - OPIT):
Python (Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras), Jupyter, Google Colab, Kaggle, VS Code
OpenAI API, Hugging Face, Gradio, Streamlit, MLFlow, Weights & Biases
Responsible AI Toolkits (Fairness, Explainability, Bias Audits), LLM Evaluation (GPT-4, Claude 3)
Project & Collaboration Tools:
JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, MS Project
Timeline
Master of Science - Responsible AI
OPIT
09.2024 - Current
Associate Director - Special Accounts Delivery
Core42
04.2022 - Current
Senior Program Manager
Rackspace
01.2022 - 03.2022
Professional Services Project Manager
Datacom
07.2021 - 12.2021
Cloud Transformation Project Manager
Wipro Limited
10.2019 - 06.2021
Project Manager
Amadeus Software Labs
04.2016 - 05.2019
Service Delivery Consultant
Hewlett Packard Enterprises
06.2015 - 04.2016
Technical Project Manager
Orange Business Services
03.2014 - 05.2015
Senior Systems Engineer
Ericsson Global India
08.2010 - 02.2014
Network Engineer
Aegis Tech
10.2009 - 07.2010
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics
University of Rajasthan
06.2005 - 08.2009
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