Vaibhav Gujral is a principal cloud architect at Charles Schwab, where he provides technical leadership to multiple engineering and operation teams, develops platform architecture blueprints, guides the development of junior engineers into individual-contributor leaders, and bridges the gaps between platform teams with application and central architecture teams. He also advises the platform organization in technology strategy, managing between the immediate demands of ensuring production reliability, the near-term goals of key firm-wide projects related to growth and modernization, and the need to align towards and deliver future technologies.

He specializes in cloud strategy and governance, cloud security, cloud architecture, application architecture, microservices architecture, Artificial Intelligence, FinOps, and DevOps practices. He helps enterprises adopt the cloud correctly by clearly understanding the motivations and developing a cost-effective solution utilizing suitable architectural patterns and design principles. His technical skills include Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes, Docker, .NET Core, Terraform, and PowerShell.

He has been a Microsoft Azure MVP since 2020, a prestigious award given to exceptional technical community leaders who share their expertise and passion for Azure. He is an active blogger and speaker. He has reviewed several Azure-related books and runs the Omaha Azure user group (https://omahaazure.org/). He also moderates a Twitter community for Microsoft Azure (https://twitter.com/i/communities/1472426162546745346), now over 4000 strong members.

He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer and holds multiple cloud certifications.