ManmohanRawat

Solution Architect · TOGAF® · Cloud Native Expert

"Kubernetes — a necessity in the Cloud-Native World"

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Current
Manager · MHP – A Porsche Company · since Mar 2023
Experience
13+ years
Credential
TOGAF® Practitioner
Location
Frankfurt, Germany

01 — whoami

About Me

Experienced cloud architect with 13+ years designing and operating cloud‑native platforms in financial services and automotive domains. Proficient in TypeScript, Kubernetes, Docker, PKS, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Datadog, Prometheus, HashiCorp Terraform, IBM WebSphere, AWS, and modern DevOps toolchains.

Friends call me Manu.

Manmohan v13.0 — Changelog

Added:
telc Deutsch B1 certificate
Fixed:
fear of AI taking over jobs (partially)
Known issue:
German stuck at B1. Can handle a standup, can't win an argument in retro.
Deprecated:
Cloud Foundry. We had good times.

kubectl describe human manmohan-rawat

Name:
manmohan-rawat
Namespace:
frankfurt
Labels:
role=solution-architect, coffee=required
Status:
Running (uptime: 13y)
Restarts:
0 (a few near-misses on Fridays)
Limits:
remembers every outage, forgets every birthday
Events:
Warning BackOff der/die/das resolution failed, retrying...
location
Frankfurt, Germany
email
manmohan.rawat1391@gmail.com
status
Not actively looking for new opportunities

Languages

  • EnglishFull professionalfluent in "per my last email"
  • HindiNative or bilingual
  • GermanLimited workingtelc B1enough to survive a standup, not enough to run the retro
  • TamilLimited workingenough to know when you're talking about me
  • YAMLFluent, against my will

02 — rollout history

Experience

  1. current – Present

    Manager

    MHP – A Porsche Company · Frankfurt, Germany

    Leading cloud architecture and solution delivery at a Porsche Group digital transformation company in the automotive sector.

    Currently at a Porsche company. No, I don't get a discount. Yes, I've asked.

  2. –

    Solutions Architect & Product Owner

    Wipro Limited · Düsseldorf, Germany

    Designed cloud-native solutions and owned product roadmaps across enterprise clients in Germany.

  3. –

    DevOps Engineer

    anynines · Germany

    Worked on cloud platform engineering and DevOps tooling for cloud-native workloads.

  4. –

    Team Lead – Cloud Foundry Operations

    Wells Fargo · Bengaluru, India

    Led the India cloud team managing PCF, PKS, Redis, and Concourse. Mentored teams migrating from legacy to cloud. Collaborated with Pivotal team in North Carolina on the Kubernetes (PKS) roadmap.

    • Led cloud team across regions on PCF, PKS, Redis & Concourse
    • Mentored teams in legacy-to-cloud migration
    • Collaborated with Pivotal team (NC) on PKS roadmap
  5. –

    PCF Operations Analyst → WebSphere Admin

    Ford Motor Company · Chennai, India / Detroit, USA

    Supported PCF on VMware & Azure across Sandbox, Preprod, and Production. Configured product tiles (RabbitMQ, Redis, MySQL, Spring Cloud). Integrated Splunk for platform monitoring. Earlier role as WebSphere Admin managing WAS/JBoss 4.x/5.x in Production, Dev, and QA.

    • PCF on VMware & Azure — Sandbox → Production
    • Tiles: RabbitMQ, Redis, MySQL, Spring Cloud, SSO
    • Splunk integration for platform health monitoring
    • WAS/JBoss admin with ITIL incident & change management
  6. –

    Senior System Administrator

    Cognizant · India

    Associate Integrator on the Middleware Integration Services Team. Delivered optimized middleware deployment solutions and provided 2nd-level production support.

03 — service mesh

Skills & Stack

Cloud & Infra

  • Kubernetes – certified
  • Cloud Foundry
  • PKS
  • Docker
  • Microsoft Azure – certified
  • AWS – certified
  • IBM WebSphere

IaC & Observability

  • Terraform – certified
  • Prometheus
  • Datadog
  • Concourse
  • Splunk

Languages & Dev

  • Typescript
  • Golang

Architecture & Leadership

  • TOGAF® – certified
  • Solution Architecture
  • Product Owner – certified
  • DevOps
  • Project Management
  • ITIL

Backed by a certification (see below)

04 — credentials

Certifications

13 certifications, collected like Pokémon. Times anyone has asked about one in an interview: 1.

Certifications, newest first
CertificationsIssued
2026
telc Deutsch B1
Language
2025
AWS Certified Security – SpecialtyAWS
AWS
2024
TOGAF® Enterprise Architecture PractitionerTOGAF®
Architecture
Certified SAFe® Product Owner / Product ManagerProduct Owner
Agile
AWS Certified Cloud PractitionerAWS
AWS
2021
Google Cloud Certified – Associate Cloud Engineer
GCP
2020
Certified Calico Operator: Level 1
Networking
Certified Jenkins Engineer
CI/CD
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform AssociateTerraform
IaC
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator AssociateMicrosoft Azure
Azure
Microsoft Certified: Azure FundamentalsMicrosoft Azure
Azure
CKA: Certified Kubernetes AdministratorKubernetes
Kubernetes
2018
VMware vSphere 6.5 Foundations
VMware

05 — reach out

Get in Touch

Got an architecture problem? My answer is "it depends", but I'm cheap to hire to explain why.

Have an interesting project or opportunity? Drop me a message and I'll get back to you.

send_message --to manmohan