So this is a bit late - but there is never a better time to retrospect and reflect. Without the support of my awesome AppTx team, peers and management at Pivotal this would not have been possible.
Rohit Kelapure - A Year In Review 2019
# Delivery
I anchored seven enterprise engagements including one that was featured in the Wall Street Journal. I led an finished initiatives in a fifty person solution architect team in the following areas > Training & Cross-functional Enablement, Practice Management, Internal Initiatives, Tooling, Scoping, Selling, Recruiting, Marketing, Blog Posts, Webinars and Conference sessions. See details below.# Practice Management
- Cookbooks Maintenance
- Created Healthcheck & SRE Offering
- App Services Anchor Bootcamp
- Blog Series Architecture - A Pivotal Opinion (upcoming)
- Mainframe Modernization GTM
- Closing loops - Feedback From AppTx to R&D
- Closing loops - Feedback to DATA, PCFMetrics, Spring Cloud Services and other R&D Teams
- Active participation PWG-SRE practice workgroup
- AppTx for PSR Offering
# Training & Cross-functional Enablement
- Kubernetes Training mini-Conference
- So You Want To Run An AppTx Scoping
- So You Want To Run An AppTx Healthcheck
- Anchoring Best Practices - Things We have learnt the hard way
- Wrote On-boarding 2 - Week - New Hire Fast Ramp 4 AppTx Solution Architects
- Continuous assistance on Slack #modern-family & #app-transformation channels
- AppTx Scoping Retro - Train the scopers 2 sessions
- PAL PKS Course Development
- Microservices Workshop DBSBank
# Pivotal Internal Initiatives
- Google Anthos intel
- PAA-RFC
- Cookbooks - RFC
- Java Devex Team
# Created Tools
- Pivotal App Analyzer _Refinement of Rules , Guidance_
- AppTx Effort Estimation Model with Steve Woods
- PKS SNAP
- Spring Bootifier with Tim Dalsing
# Recruiting - 2 Solution Architects
# Mentored/Improved - One colleague
# Conducted Scopings - 6 including commercial and federal
# Pivotal Blog Posts
- 17 Blog posts on https://cloud.rohitkelapure.com
- Twitter @rkela (750 followers)
# Webinars (Solo, Partners & Customers)
- Why Your Digital Transformation Strategy Demands Middleware Modernization
- How to Migrate Applications Off a Mainframe
- Tools and Recipes to Replatform Monolithic Apps to Modern Cloud Environments
- App Modernization with .NET Core: How Travelers Insurance is Going Cloud-Native
# Conferences - SpringOne Platform 2019
- [360-Degree Health Assessment of Microservices on the PCF Platform](https://springoneplatform.io/2019/sessions/360-degree-health-assessment-of-microservices-on-the-pcf-platform)
# Certifications
# Courses
- Udemy - Apache Kafka Series
# Top 5 Books Read
- Range
- SuperThinking A Big Book Of Mental Models
- Team Topologies
- Production Ready Microservices
- TAPE SUCKS: Inside Data Domain, A Silicon Valley Growth Story (Kindle Books)
- Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell
