Rahul Bhattacharya

Rahul Bhattacharya is a highly experienced Senior Solutions Architect at Confluent, specializing in building solutions with Kafka and integrating AI with Kafka using MCP since March 2019. Alongside this role, Rahul serves as a part-time Learning Facilitator and Teaching Assistant at The University of Texas at Austin, focusing on advances in deep learning. Previous positions include Solutions Architect at BNSF Railway, where involvement in a notification system was key, and Lead Engineer at Target, where an Apache Camel pipeline for vendor data was developed. Additional experience encompasses roles as a Software Architect at Liquidity Services and Aon, a Senior Engineer at Beachbody, and a Senior Developer at companies like Cisco Systems and Onward Technologies. Educational qualifications include a Master of Science in Computer Science with a specialization in machine learning from The University of Texas at Austin, an MBA in Finance from Boston University, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from Visvesvaraya Technological University.