Dhruvil Thakkar

Dhruvil Thakkar has a diverse background in the technology industry. Dhruvil is currently working as a Cloud Engineer II at Onica by Rackspace Technology since May 2022. Prior to this, they worked at ObjectRocket - a Rackspace Technology company as a Customer Data Engineer from February 2019 to May 2022.

Before joining ObjectRocket, Dhruvil held multiple roles at Rackspace, the #1 managed cloud company, including Enterprise Support Engineer from May 2015 to February 2019 and Linux Administrator III from February 2012 to April 2015. In these roles, they provided support to enterprise clients, ensured the stability of complex infrastructures, and worked with various technologies such as Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, and storage systems.

Dhruvil started their career as a Linux Administrator at Hostgator.com from May 2010 to February 2012, where they gained experience in managing Linux systems. Dhruvil also briefly worked at Motorola as a Test Engineer / Linux Technician from August 2008 to December 2008.

Furthermore, Dhruvil served as a Systems Support Engineer at Fairleigh Dickinson University from August 2007 to July 2008.

Overall, Dhruvil Thakkar has a strong technical background with experience in cloud engineering, customer data management, enterprise support, Linux administration, and system support.

Dhruvil Thakkar obtained a Master of Science degree in Computer Engineering from Fairleigh Dickinson University, where they studied from 2007 to 2009. In addition to their formal education, they have also obtained several certifications. These include the Amazon Web Services SysOps Administrator - Associate certification from Amazon Web Services (AWS), which they obtained in November 2022; the HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate certification from HashiCorp, obtained in August 2022; the Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect Associate certification from AWS, obtained in July 2022; the Technical Onboarding Program - Google Cloud Platform certification from Rackspace Technology, obtained in May 2022; the Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect certification from Google, obtained in April 2022; the MongoDB Certified DBA Associate (C100DBA) certification from MongoDB, obtained in June 2020; the Red Hat Certified Engineer RHCE - 6 certification from Red Hat, obtained in November 2016; the Red Hat Certified Server Hardening RH 432 certification from Red Hat, obtained in November 2016; and the HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (002) certification from HashiCorp, obtained in August 2022.