Our Speakers

Meet the industry experts and thought leaders who will be sharing their knowledge and experiences at KCD Kochi 2026.

Mani Chandrasekaran

Field CTO and Enterprise Technologist

Amazon Web Services

“Kubernetes Reimagined: AI Agents, Auto Mode, and the Rise of Autonomous Operations”

Aditya Godbole

CTO

Last9

“Observability in the Era of AI and Agentic Workloads”

Rajat Upadhyaya

Director, Software Engineering

Cisco

“Open source in AI security at Cisco”

Gourav Sharma

Client Technical Architect and Success Manager

IBM

“Unlocking the Future of AI: Deploying Generative Models on Kubernetes”

Abhinav Dubey

Solution Architect

Devtron Inc

“Agentic AI Has Entered the Chat: A New Era of SRE Automation”

Raghavendra Sirigeri

Founder

Questodev

“Supercharging AI Inference on K8s: Demystifying KV Cache, LM Cache & Smart Routing”

Achanandhi Mathankumar

Advanced Analyst

“Deploying Tiny AI Workloads on k3s Using WebAssembly”

Pratik Panda

Senior SRE

Red Hat

“From Kernel to Kubernetes: Running and Profiling LLM Workloads at the OCI Layer”

Ram Iyengar

Open Source Evangelist

Linux Foundation

“Kubernetes Minus AI. What's Left?”

Ismath K I

Senior Devops Engineer

KeyValue Systems

“AI-Augmented DevOps — How We Use AI Agents to Simplify Kubernetes Troubleshooting”

Kapil Nema

Senior Software Engineer

Red Hat

“Building Adaptive MLOps Platforms with Checkpoint-Aware Scheduling on Kubernetes”

Fazlur Rahman Khan

Technical Trainer

The Linux Foundation

“From Novice to Ninja: Mastering Kubernetes Security with Open Source Tools”

Raghu Reddy

Staff Platform Engineer (Security)

Calix

“Who Trained This Model? Bringing Supply Chain Security to the AI Pipeline”

Esakki Raj E

Senior AIOps Engineer

Cisco

“Who Trained This Model? Bringing Supply Chain Security to the AI Pipeline”

Safeer C M

Principal Engineer

MoEngage

“Commit, Sync, Toggle: GitOps Workflows for Feature Flags with OpenFeature and GoFeatureFlag”

Manjula Rathnayaka

Director of Engineering

WSO2

“OpenChoreo: A Plane-Based Architecture for Internal Developer Platforms”

Vivek Anandaraman

Founder

CloudElu Labs

“Running OpenTelemetry in Kubernetes: Architecture Decisions, Failures, and Hard-Won Lessons”

Jeevitha G

Staff Software Engineer

Juniper Networks

“From Noisy Logs to Actionable Insights: AI-Assisted Observability with Fluent Bit, OpenSearch & RA”

Bhavani Indukuri

Senior Platform Engineer II

DigitalOcean

“What We Miss About Operators: Hidden Wins Inside Kubernetes Clusters”

Sayed Imran

SRE

66Degrees

“Application-Centric Kubernetes Platforms with kro and ArgoCD”

Sagar Utekar

Senior SRE

CrowdStrike

“Shedding the Spare Tire: Reducing the Operational Weight of Your Service Mesh”

Saurabh Mishra

DevOps Engineer

Optum Global

“Platform Patterns for AI on K8s: Admission, Isolation & Observability That Work”

Ajoy Bharath

Independent Consultant

Freelancer

“PE and DevEx: Transforming Friction into Flow”

Sreeram Venkitesh

Senior Software Engineer

DigitalOcean

“Understanding Kubernetes internals by building a toy kubeadm implementation”

Vibhor Chinda

Software Engineer II

Guidewire Software

“Terraform to Crossplane: The Art of Zero-Downtime Migration”

Ayush Kumar

Software Engineer II

Guidewire Software

“Terraform to Crossplane: The Art of Zero-Downtime Migration”

Anurag Aggarwal

Software Engineer

Tetrate

“AI-Native Routing with Envoy”

Gopakumar N

Software Engineer

Tetrate

“AI-Native Routing with Envoy”

Anannya Roy Chowdhury

Gen AI Developer Advocate

Amazon Web Services

“How Many Agents Are Too Many? - The Hidden Cost of Multi-Agent Systems”

Abhith M V

Software Architect Specialist

Siemens Healthineers

“Scaling the Unscalable: How We Herded a Windows Monolith into Kubernetes Without Losing Our Minds”

Eldho George

Senior Key Expert

Siemens Healthineers

“Scaling the Unscalable: How We Herded a Windows Monolith into Kubernetes Without Losing Our Minds”

Someshwaran Mohan Kumar

Developer Advocate

Elastic

“Building Elastic Cloud Serverless on Kubernetes: Lessons from Operating at Cloud Scale”

Suriyaa Thiyagarajan

Oracle DBA

Comcast

“Database lessons with Valkey on Kubernetes”

Manoj Kumar T

Senior Platform Architect

“Rise of Agentic Platforms : Seamless scaling beyond automation”

Geeta Kakrani

AI Architect and Consultant

Independent Consultant

“How We Reduced GenAI Costs Using Hybrid Models, Agents & Kubernetes Signals”

George Eldho

Senior DevOps Engineer

KeyValue Software Systems

“From cgroups to eBPF: Building Container-Aware Logic”

Merin

Technical Account Manager

Google

“Building Distributed Intelligence with Kubernetes and Ray”

Prithviraj

Senior Community Manager & Developer Advocate

Mirantis

“Infrastructure is LEGO: Composable Platforms That Snap Together”

Rahul Joseph

Head of Infrastructure

Quintype Technologies

“The Bin Packing Problem: Right-Sizing Your Kubernetes Pods”

Ajay Sathianathan

Technical Architect

IBS Software

“Incident to Insight: AI-Powered Cloud Native Kubernetes Troubleshooting with HolmesGPT”

Abdul Hakkeem PA

SDE Intern

IBM India Software Labs

“From Pods to Production: Serving LLMs on Kubernetes with KServe + vLLM”

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