Bijoy Choudhury

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India23 yrs 1 mo experience

AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

20+ years of experience in technical enablement and data streaming.
Expert in AI/ML integrations and enterprise-scale architectures.
Proven track record in designing impactful workshops and training.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert specializing in technical enablement and cloud-native solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Real-time Data StreamingAi/ml IntegrationsSolution DeliveryCustomer EngagementCloud-native TransformationCourseware Content DesignTraining DeliveryCurriculum Management

Other Skills

technical enablemententerprise-scale architecturesworkshopsproduct feedbackcommunity contributionsolution architecturescustomer enablementtechnical content developmenttraining managementcourse designpublic advocacyproject managementteachingcourse coordinationJava development

About

With over 20+ years of experience, I specialize in technical enablement, real-time data streaming, and AI/ML integrations. As a Technical Lead at Confluent, I focus on delivering innovative solutions, designing workshops, and enabling success through enterprise-scale architectures. My role involves strategizing and collaborating with teams to implement scalable, impactful solutions. My expertise includes creating hands-on training, leading workshops on Confluent Cloud integrations, and architecting solutions for AI, data warehouses, and stream processing. With a strong foundation in Kubernetes, Spring Framework, and Cloud Foundry, I am committed to driving customer success through collaboration and innovation.

Experience

23 yrs 1 mo

Total Experience

3 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 10 mos

Current Experience

Confluent

2 roles

Technical Lead

Promoted

Aug 2025 – Present · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

As a Solutions Engineering Leader at Confluent, I focus on driving customer success through innovation, technical enablement, and hands-on solution delivery. My work spans across real-time data streaming, AI/ML integrations, and enterprise-scale architectures.
🔹 Workshops & Enablement
I design and deliver interactive workshops showcasing Confluent Cloud’s integration with AI, Data Warehouses, and Stream Processing use cases — such as real-time fraud detection, machine learning pipelines, and change data capture.
🔹 Leadership & Strategy
I lead a team of Solution Engineers, working closely with customers to discuss, strategize, and architect scalable solutions. Together, we design and deliver Proof of Concepts (POCs) that demonstrate business value and accelerate adoption.
🔹 Content & Thought Leadership
I write blogs and articles - https://www.confluent.io/blog/author/bijoy-choudhury on new Confluent features—such as TableFlow—to help customers discover, understand, and implement them effectively.
🔹 Evangelism & Community
Through webinars, live coding sessions, and technical talks, I bring these solutions to life in real time, helping developers and data engineers build with confidence. I also actively engage in forums and social media to share best practices and connect with the broader Confluent community.
🔹 Collaboration & Feedback
I work closely with Confluent’s product and engineering teams to stay ahead of new feature releases, ensure best practices, and provide customer-driven feedback to enhance the product experience.

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Manager: Cloud Enablement Engineering - Kafka, Flink, AI

Jul 2024 – Aug 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Drove customer engagement by collaborating with sales, resulting in increased signups and enhanced customer satisfaction.
Provided actionable feedback to product and engineering teams, influencing product improvements and feature development.
Actively contributed to the Confluent community through knowledge sharing and engagement on various platforms.

customer engagementproduct feedbackcommunity contribution

Vmware

Senior Solutions Architect

Feb 2020 – Nov 2023 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka

As a Senior Solutions Architect at VMware, I partnered with enterprise customers to accelerate their cloud-native transformation with VMware Tanzu and the Kubernetes ecosystem.
🔹 Strategic Advisory:
Guided customers on solution architectures and best practices, contributing to technical discovery, demos, proof of value, executive presentations, and documenting decision criteria to enable faster decision-making.
🔹 Customer Enablement:
Designed and delivered tailored educational learning paths for modern cloud-native practices, helping customers and partners successfully adopt and implement VMware Tanzu products and services.
🔹 Technical Content Development:
Created hands-on training materials, workshops, and technical documentation to drive deeper adoption and operational excellence.
🔹 Ecosystem Expertise:
Worked extensively with Docker, Kubernetes, VMware Tanzu, AWS, and GCP, enabling customers to design and deploy scalable, resilient, and secure workloads across multi-cloud environments.

cloud-native transformationsolution architecturescustomer enablementtechnical content development

Pivotal software, inc.

Principal Technical Instructor

Oct 2013 – Jan 2020 · 6 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore, India

Courseware content design and delivery that includes training management, sales, and consulting with Pivotal customers.
Responsibilities include:
Create and suggest learning maps to customers on Pivotal products.
Promote and enable customers to use Pivotal products.
Working with Pivotal’s technical publications and systems engineering group to ensure consistency of product documentation and training materials.
Supporting/Certifying technical and teaching skill to instructors at education partners
Teaching courses, and also sometimes conducting Train the Trainer (TTT) sessions for our training
partners, and internal employees
Expertise on Cloud Foundry, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, BOSH, IMDG, GemFire, Core Java, Spring
Framework, Spring Cloud, and Spring Boot

courseware content designtraining managementcustomer enablement

Vmware

Senior Technical Instructor

Aug 2011 – Sep 2013 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

Deliver training in traditional lecture/lab settings, and also conduct online training.
Responsibilities include:
Design and develop VMware certified trainings and workshops on Spring Framework and VFabric Suite of products
Working with Spring Frameworks Technical Publications and Systems Engineering group to ensure consistency of product documentation and training materials.
Supporting/Certifying technical and teaching skill to instructors at Education Partners
Teaching courses, and also sometimes conducting Train the Trainer (TTT) sessions for our training partners, and internal employees
Advocating VFabric products on various public forums.
http://www.meetup.com/BangaloreOpenJUG/events/120600992/
You can visit my blog on Spring-GemFire integration at:
http://blog.pivotal.io/pivotal/products/3-steps-to-help-migrate-spring-apps-to-real-time-data-grids