Chakradhar Rao J.

Chief Technology Officer at Zelar

Greater Cleveland, United States

About Chakradhar Rao J.

Chakradhar Rao J. is Chief Technology Officer at Zelar. Location: Greater Cleveland, United States.

CTO at Cokpit.ai (GenAI-native infra visibility platform) and Zelar. I’ve built, led and worked with engineering teams across Red Hat, Cloudera. At Cokpit, we’re building a GenAI-native control layer for modern infrastructure — helping DevOps and platform teams reduce alert fatigue, debug faster, and gain visibility into costs and performance. At Zelar, I’ve helped scale cloud-native solutions for enterprises across industries, leading product architecture and technical delivery from the ground up. I’ve spent 15+ years building infra and engineering platforms, with a deep focus on: • Containers, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and Node.js • Infra automation, platform velocity, and team productivity • Microservices, APIs, hybrid cloud, and edge-native tooling • GRC and security architecture at scale I'm an ex CNCF Ambassador, and have spoken at: • Red Hat Summit, DevNation Federal, DevOpsDays, and more • Multiple OpenShift and DevOps community meetups across the US and India → https://github.com/debianmaster/talks Featured on: Red Hat Blog : https://blog.openshift.com/author/cjonagamredhat-com/ OpenShift YouTube Channel : http://bit.ly/openshift-videos Still coding. Always learning. Passionate about building tools engineers love and solving for the things that slow teams down. Follow along on Twitter or explore the stack at Cokpit.ai

Skills

  • LangChain
  • rsam
  • Networking

Additional experience

  • Chief Technology Officer - Cokpit

    Zelar

    Started March 2024

Education

  • Bachelor of Technology, BV Raju Institute of Technology (BVRIT)