Rohit Bhardwaj
Director, AI & Data Architecture at Salesforce | Author | Enterprise AI
Rohit Bhardwaj is a Director of AI & Data Architecture at Salesforce, where he focuses on enterprise AI, agentic systems, cloud-native architecture, distributed systems, data platforms, security, and large-scale transformation.Over his career, Rohit has designed and led complex enterprise platforms across AWS, Google Cloud, microservices, real-time data, API ecosystems, resilient distributed systems, and AI-enabled architectures. His work increasingly focuses on the challenges enterprises face as software evolves from deterministic services to AI-native and agentic systems—particularly around reliability, governance, evidence, security, observability, cost, and safe autonomy.
Rohit is the author of System Design with AI Interview Guide: Designing Scalable, Agentic, and Defensible Systems, published by Apress. The book presents a modern approach to system design covering scalability, distributed systems, AI architecture primitives, security, reliability, economics, agentic systems, and real-world architectures including e-commerce, ride sharing, payments, fraud detection, messaging, video streaming, file storage, and search. (Springer Link)
Book:
Amazon: https://a.co/d/09Zs1twa
Publisher / Springer Nature: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/979-8-8688-2782-2
O'Reilly: https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/system-design-with/9798868827822/
Rohit is also an O’Reilly instructor and a frequent speaker at technology conferences including No Fluff Just Stuff, UberConf, GIDS, and other international events. His talks focus on practical architecture lessons from building and operating complex systems, including AI control planes, trusted agents, inference at scale, evidence-first RAG, AI security, distributed-system failure, and AI-era software architecture.
As a trusted advisor and architecture leader, Rohit works at the intersection of business strategy and deep technical architecture—helping teams translate complex business problems into scalable, resilient, secure, and economically sustainable systems.
Rohit holds an MBA in Corporate Entrepreneurship from Babson College and graduate-level education in Computer Science from Boston University and Harvard University.
Connect with Rohit:
LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/rohit-bhardwaj-cloud
X / Twitter: @rbhardwaj1
Presentations
Mastering Enterprise Architecture to create Roadmap- DEEP DIVE
9:00 AM MDT
Enterprise Architecture helps in describing what is the current state and helps build a future roadmap. Come prepared to solve many Enterprise Architecture challenges.
As part of the journey, we will explore TOGAF to build our architecture. First, we will create a Baseline Architecture. Next, we will explore the path for the Target Architecture. Finally, after identifying gaps between the two, we will apply a step-by-step process to prepare a roadmap.
“Organizations no longer want their enterprise architecture (EA) practice to be focused on standards, structure and control,” says Marcus Blosch, research vice president at Gartner.
“They want an EA practice that is focused on driving business outcomes, working in a flexible and creative way to help define the future and how to get there.”
We will explore the following domains:
– Data
– Technology
– Application
– Business
This talk will help you build a long-term IT Strategy which matches your Business Strategy.
Top Algorithms for Performance and Efficiency
8:30 AM MDT
We are all proud of being the best coders, but have we analyzed our code for optimization? What tools can help us guide toward creating algorithms with better time and space complexity?
How you approach a problem is critical. How do you solve the problem? How do you optimize the problem?
This talk will not only prepare you for the interviews but will also give confidence on how to crack the coding challenges.
In this talk, we will be exploring analytical skills and coding skills of the top algorithms and common problems from the real-world, including
Single Source Shortest Paths
Traveling Salesman problems
Pattern Search Algorithms
Greedy Algorithms
KnapSack problem
Priority queue
Problem-solving skills are valuable and help develop optimal algorithms. We will look at problem-solving flow charts to make the right decisions for a given problem.
Topics we will cover are:
Arrays and Strings - Palindrome permutations
Linked Lists - Runner technique, Recursions
Stacks and queues
Trees and Graphs - Binary Tree, Binary Search Tree, Tries
Sorting and Searching
Single-Source Shortest Paths: Bellman-Ford, BFS, DFS, Dijkstra, Dynamic Programming
This talk is ideal for the following roles:
Architects
Technical Leads
Programers
Integration Architects
Solution Architects
Top Algorithms for Performance and Efficiency
10:30 AM MDT
We are all proud of being the best coders, but have we analyzed our code for optimization? What tools can help us guide toward creating algorithms with better time and space complexity?
How you approach a problem is critical. How do you solve the problem? How do you optimize the problem?
This talk will not only prepare you for the interviews but will also give confidence on how to crack the coding challenges.
In this talk, we will be exploring analytical skills and coding skills of the top algorithms and common problems from the real-world, including
Single Source Shortest Paths
Traveling Salesman problems
Pattern Search Algorithms
Greedy Algorithms
KnapSack problem
Priority queue
Problem-solving skills are valuable and help develop optimal algorithms. We will look at problem-solving flow charts to make the right decisions for a given problem.
Topics we will cover are:
Arrays and Strings - Palindrome permutations
Linked Lists - Runner technique, Recursions
Stacks and queues
Trees and Graphs - Binary Tree, Binary Search Tree, Tries
Sorting and Searching
Single-Source Shortest Paths: Bellman-Ford, BFS, DFS, Dijkstra, Dynamic Programming
This talk is ideal for the following roles:
Architects
Technical Leads
Programers
Integration Architects
Solution Architects
Mastering Cloud Scalability and System Designs Workshop
1:00 PM MDT
Real-world applications nowadays are designed using both art and science. What is the process of coming up with a solution which works, scales, and is resilient?
What is it challenging to design a system for disruptive technologies?
System design is unstructured, and there are many ways to solve problems.
Gaining experience in new applications and technologies
Best practices change with time. The best way ten years ago can quickly become an anti-pattern.
In this talk, we will explore step by step guide to approach System design using real-world applications.
Come prepared to design a system for following applications interactively.
We will gain more knowledge with collective experience and best practices.
UBER System Design
NETFLIX System Design
INSTAGRAM System Design
YELP System Design
TWITTER System Design
Search Engines
Auto Suggestions / Recommendations System Design
Fraud Detection System Design
This talk is ideal for the following roles:
Architects
Technical Leads
Programers
Integration Architects
Solution Architects
Mastering Cloud Scalability and System Designs Workshop
3:00 PM MDT
Real-world applications nowadays are designed using both art and science. What is the process of coming up with a solution which works, scales, and is resilient?
What is it challenging to design a system for disruptive technologies?
System design is unstructured, and there are many ways to solve problems.
Gaining experience in new applications and technologies
Best practices change with time. The best way ten years ago can quickly become an anti-pattern.
In this talk, we will explore step by step guide to approach System design using real-world applications.
Come prepared to design a system for following applications interactively.
We will gain more knowledge with collective experience and best practices.
UBER System Design
NETFLIX System Design
INSTAGRAM System Design
YELP System Design
TWITTER System Design
Search Engines
Auto Suggestions / Recommendations System Design
Fraud Detection System Design
This talk is ideal for the following roles:
Architects
Technical Leads
Programers
Integration Architects
Solution Architects
Top Algorithms for Performance and Efficiency
8:30 AM MDT
We are all proud of being the best coders, but have we analyzed our code for optimization? What tools can help us guide toward creating algorithms with better time and space complexity?
How you approach a problem is critical. How do you solve the problem? How do you optimize the problem?
This talk will not only prepare you for the interviews but will also give confidence on how to crack the coding challenges.
In this talk, we will be exploring analytical skills and coding skills of the top algorithms and common problems from the real-world, including
Single Source Shortest Paths
Traveling Salesman problems
Pattern Search Algorithms
Greedy Algorithms
KnapSack problem
Priority queue
Problem-solving skills are valuable and help develop optimal algorithms. We will look at problem-solving flow charts to make the right decisions for a given problem.
Topics we will cover are:
Arrays and Strings - Palindrome permutations
Linked Lists - Runner technique, Recursions
Stacks and queues
Trees and Graphs - Binary Tree, Binary Search Tree, Tries
Sorting and Searching
Single-Source Shortest Paths: Bellman-Ford, BFS, DFS, Dijkstra, Dynamic Programming
This talk is ideal for the following roles:
Architects
Technical Leads
Programers
Integration Architects
Solution Architects
Top Algorithms for Performance and Efficiency
10:30 AM MDT
We are all proud of being the best coders, but have we analyzed our code for optimization? What tools can help us guide toward creating algorithms with better time and space complexity?
How you approach a problem is critical. How do you solve the problem? How do you optimize the problem?
This talk will not only prepare you for the interviews but will also give confidence on how to crack the coding challenges.
In this talk, we will be exploring analytical skills and coding skills of the top algorithms and common problems from the real-world, including
Single Source Shortest Paths
Traveling Salesman problems
Pattern Search Algorithms
Greedy Algorithms
KnapSack problem
Priority queue
Problem-solving skills are valuable and help develop optimal algorithms. We will look at problem-solving flow charts to make the right decisions for a given problem.
Topics we will cover are:
Arrays and Strings - Palindrome permutations
Linked Lists - Runner technique, Recursions
Stacks and queues
Trees and Graphs - Binary Tree, Binary Search Tree, Tries
Sorting and Searching
Single-Source Shortest Paths: Bellman-Ford, BFS, DFS, Dijkstra, Dynamic Programming
This talk is ideal for the following roles:
Architects
Technical Leads
Programers
Integration Architects
Solution Architects