Dr. Rahul Gaikwad
I'm a transformational technology leader with 15+ years of experience driving innovation across ๐๐น๐ผ๐๐ฑ, ๐๐ฒ๐๐ข๐ฝ๐, ๐๐/๐ ๐, ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐๐. Holding a ๐ฃ๐ต๐ in Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (๐๐๐ข๐ฝ๐) from Savitribai Phule Pune University, along with ๐ ๐๐, ๐ ๐๐ and 35+ technical certifications (including 11๐ ๐๐ช๐ฆ, ๐ฏ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ต๐ถ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฝ, Confluent Kafka, and Stanford ML), I blend deep technical expertise with strategic vision and business acumen.
Currently serving as a ๐ฆ๐๐ฎ๐ณ๐ณ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐ฆ๐ผ๐น๐๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ ๐๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ต๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ at HashiCorp, I partner with enterprise CxOs and leadership teams across APAC to define and accelerate their cloud transformation journey using the HashiCorp product suite.
HashiCorp
Staff Resident Solutions Architect
Session
Infrastructure as Code has standardized Day-0 provisioning, but most enterprises still handle Day-2 operations patching, configuration changes, drift remediation, and incident response through manual processes and fragmented automation. This session shows how Terraform Actions, combined with the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), transforms Terraform from a provisioning tool into an operational control plane. With Terraform managing infrastructure state and Ansible executing configuration and remediation workflows, teams can unify provisioning and operations into a single, governed workflow. Using the new Terraform action for AAP, a single terraform apply can trigger Event-Driven Ansible (EDA) to execute dynamic automation across Red Hat environments. The result is a repeatable, policy-driven model for Day-2 operations that reduces operational friction, eliminates ad-hoc access, and improves reliability at scale.
Target Audience: Developers, Architects, DevOps, Security, SRE