CNCF-hosted Co-located Events North America 2024

CNCF-hosted Co-located Events North America 2024

Nandhakumar Venkatachalam

Yahoo Inc

Sr Princ Production Engineer

San Francisco Bay Area

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Nandhakumar Venkatachalam is a Senior Principal Production Engineer at Yahoo Inc. As a lead engineer responsible for operating the large-scale Kubernetes cluster, he has played a key architect role in building scalable cloud infrastructure. Nandha has been with Yahoo for over 17 years and has been one of the core team members of the Kubernetes team since its inception in 2015.

9:00am MST

Observability Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Anna Kapuscinska, Austin Parker & Eduardo Silva, Program Co-Chairs Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E

9:10am MST

Observability Projects Updates - Project Maintainers Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E

9:45am MST

Profiling Mastery: Decode Your Data and Elevate Observability - Frederic Branczyk, Polar Signals Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E

10:15am MST

Sponsored Keynote: Collecting and Processing OTEL Data at Scale - Anurag Gupta, Chronosphere Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E

10:40am MST

Building a Cutting-Edge Kubernetes Internal Developer Platform at NVIDIA - Carlos Santana, AWS & Feng Zhou, Nvidia Corp Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD Multitenancy and Fairness at Scale with Kueue: A Case Study - Aldo Culquicondor, Google & Rajat Phull, Apple Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A But Wait! There's...Still More‽ - Observability Data Volumes and Strategies for Managing Them - Éamon Ryan, Grafana Labs Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E

11:15am MST

Panel: Kubernetes and GPU Trends for AI in Financial Services - Olyvia Rakshit, Avesha; Toshal Khawale, JP Morgan Chase; Bijit Ghosh, Deutsche Bank; Manoj Agrawal, Royal Bank of Canada Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A ⚡ Lightning Talk: Are You Really Ready to Adopt a Platform? - Atulpriya Sharma, InfraCloud Technologies Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

11:30am MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: The Hidden Discipline: Marketing Secrets for Engineering Platforms - Erica Hughberg, Tetrate Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

11:50am MST

Panel: Exploring eBPF Use Cases in Cloud-Native Security - Oshrat Nir, ARMO; Anna Kapuścińska, Isovalent, now part of Cisco; Whitney Lee, CNCF Ambassador; Maya Singh, Microsoft; Cortney Nickerson, Kubeshop Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom B

11:55am MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Kubernetes as Your DBA - Karen Jex, Crunchy Data Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A

12:10pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Cloud Native PostgreSQL - Running PostgreSQL on Kubernetes - Peter Zaitsev, Coroot, FerretDB, Percona Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A

1:30pm MST

Scaling Network Policy Enforcement Beyond the Cluster Boundary with Cilium - Hemanth Malla & Maxime Visonneau, Datadog Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom B Dressing-up Your Cluster for AI in Minutes with a Portable Network CR - Sunyanan Choochotkaew & Tatsuhiro Chiba, IBM Research Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A

2:05pm MST

Measure What Matters - Jamie Danielson, Honeycomb Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E

2:40pm MST

Secure Your Systems the Better Way Using Policy-as-Code - Adriana Villela, ServiceNow Cloud Observability & Marino Wijay, Kong Inc. Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

3:20pm MST

Whoops! How Not to Accidentally Delete Everything. - Dan Garfield, Codefresh by Octopus Deploy Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD Reproducible AI with Kubeflow, lakeFS and Langchain - Oz Katz, Treeverse Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A Turn the Volume Down on Noisy Neighbors! - Sándor Guba, Axoflow Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 B Innovating at Scale: Building and Managing Modern Developer Platform in U.S. Bank - Poonam Garg & Carrie Pommier, U.S. Bank Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

3:55pm MST

Distributed Tracing: All the Warning Signs Were Out There!!! - Vijay Samuel & Sandeep Raveesh, eBay Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E

5:00pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Is OpenTelemetry Too Complicated to Get Started? - Pranay Prateek, SigNoz Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E

5:10pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Optimizing Multi-Cluster Communication and Cost Efficiency with Admiral and Istio - Punakshi Chaand, Intuit Inc. Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C

5:15pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Applying Cilium at Edge with KubeEdge - Tomoya Fujita, Sony Corporation of America Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom B ⚡ Lightning Talk: Cost Saving Strategies for Interactive AI Development - Shravan Achar, Apple Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A ⚡ Lightning Talk: Observability Migration Worst Case Scenarios - Bill Hineline, Chronosphere Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E