About the Author

Rajesh RV is a seasoned IT architect with extensive experience in diversified technologies and more than 16 years of airline IT experience.

Rajesh received a degree in computer engineering from University of Cochin, India. He joined the JEE community Spring during the early days of EJB. During the course, as an architect, he worked on many large-scale, mission-critical projects, including New Generation Airline Passenger Reservation System (iFlyRes) and Next Generation Airline Cargo Reservation systems (Skychain and CROAMIS) in the airlines domain.

At present, working as chief architect at Emirates (http://www.emirates.com/), Rajesh is handling the solution architecture portfolio, which is spread across various architecture capabilities, such as JEE, SOA, NoSQL, IoT, mobile, UI, integration, and more. At Emirates, Open Travel Platform (OTP) architected by Rajesh earned the group the prestigious 2011 RedHat Innovation Award in the Carved Out Costs category. In 2011, he introduced the innovative concept of the Honeycomb architecture based on the hexagonal architecture pattern used to transform the legacy mainframe system.

Rajesh has a deep passion for technology and architecture. He also holds several certifications, such as BEA Certified WebLogic Administrator, Sun Certified Java Enterprise Architect, Open Group Certified TOGAF Practitioner, Licensed ZapThink Architect in SOA, and IASA global CITA-A Certified Architecture Specialist.

Previously, Rajesh reviewed the book Service Oriented Java Business Integration, Packt Publishing by Binildas A. Christudas.

Rajesh's social profile is available at https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajeshrv.