Pushpinder Chauhan (pushpinderchauhan)

Pushpinder Chauhan is a Senior Technology & Engineering Leader and Solutions Architect with 17+ years of experience designing and delivering enterprise-grade digital platforms across tourism, healthcare, retail, and public sectors. He combines strong hands-on engineering expertise with architecture, cloud transformation, AI/GenAI, and technology leadership, delivering scalable solutions across North America and global markets.

A long-time advocate of Open Source and Open Standards, Pushpinder has been an active member of the Drupal community since 2010, contributing modules, patches, architectural solutions, and technical knowledge. He has served as a Project Code Review Git Administrator on Drupal.org, maintains contributed modules, and is an Acquia Certified Drupal Expert and AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate.

In recent years, Pushpinder has led technology transformation initiatives spanning cloud-native platforms, microservices, APIs, mobile applications, and enterprise AI solutions. Most recently, he designed and delivered a federated RAG platform using Azure AI Search and hybrid retrieval, enabling grounded AI responses, source-level traceability, and scalable institutional onboarding while keeping organizations in control of their original data.

He brings a strong combination of technical depth and leadership, with experience shaping architecture, mentoring engineers, aligning stakeholders, driving delivery, and translating ambiguous business requirements into scalable technical solutions. He also applies AI-assisted development tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, GitHub Copilot, and Roo Code to accelerate engineering workflows, documentation, testing, migrations, and solution development while focusing engineering teams on higher-value design and problem solving.

Core Specializations

• Technology & Engineering Leadership: Architecture, technical strategy, team leadership, mentoring, Agile delivery, stakeholder alignment
• AI & GenAI: RAG, Azure AI Search, semantic/vector search, federated data architectures, AI-assisted engineering
• Cloud & Modernization: AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, legacy modernization
• Backend & Distributed Systems: Java, Node.js, Python, Spring Boot, microservices, REST APIs, Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ
• Digital Platforms: Drupal, Contentful, React, Next.js, React Native, headless and decoupled architectures
• Data & Integration: SQL/NoSQL, API-first architectures, ETL, enterprise integrations, content and data migrations
• Performance & Scalability: Caching, distributed systems, API optimization, Varnish, Memcached, Redis
• Open Source: Drupal community contributions, contributed modules, patches, migration tools, and technical documentation

Pushpinder is passionate about solving complex technology challenges, mentoring engineering teams, contributing to open-source communities, and applying emerging technologies to create practical business value.