Schedule

Rootconf Mini 2024 (on 22nd & 23rd Nov)

Geeking out on systems and security since 2012

Gallery, 2nd floor (Systems Engineering Track 1)

Board Room, 2nd floor (Security Engineering Track)

Library, 2nd floor (Systems Engineering Track 2)

09:00–09:30

Check-in

09:30–09:40

Introduction to the Systems Engineering Track

09:40–09:50

Transition

09:45–10:00

Introduction to Security Engineering Track

09:50–10:20

Art of caching: ways, wins, woes, weird, wisdom

Srinivas Devaki, Founder at optiowl.cloud

09:50–10:00

Introduction to Systems Engineering Track 2; housekeeping rules

10:00–10:10

Transition

10:00–10:10

Transition

10:10–10:40

Defence against the dark arts - building security in application development framework

Abhisek Datta, Co-founder at SafeDep

10:10–10:40

Shaken, not stirred - the art of mixing K8s and databases

Vaidyanathan S, Senior Engineering Manager at Flipkart

10:20–10:30

Transition

10:30–11:05

Bridging the gap: building OpenTelemetry pipelines for observability in practice

Preeti Dewani, Product Architect at Last9

10:40–10:50

Transition

10:40–10:50

Transition

10:50–11:05

BOLT-ing CI: securing GitHub actions

Abhimanyu Dhamija, Co-founder at KoalaLab

10:50–11:20

From sidecars to serverless to VMs - Tecton's journey to the promised future and back

Achal Shah, Tech Lead Manager at Tecton

11:05–11:25

Morning break

11:05–11:25

Morning break

11:20–12:10

Keynote livestream

11:25–12:10

Keynote: Revisiting abstractions for fun and profit

Amod Malviya, co-founder at Udaan; ex-CTO, Flipkart.

11:25–12:10

Keynote livestream

12:10–12:20

Transition

12:10–12:40

With infinite scale comes infinite bill (and bankruptcy)

Chandrapal Badshah, Security Researcher

12:10–12:45

Millions saved, lessons learned: the cloud cost optimization blueprint

Arya Ketan, Sr Principal Engineer at Sharechat

12:20–12:45

Sponsored talk: Building a seamless hybrid cloud with Kubernetes and Clutch

Bharadwaj Embar, Engineering Manager for Platform Engineering at Nutanix

12:40–13:40

Lunch break

12:45–13:45

Lunch

12:45–13:25

Lunch

13:25–13:55

Log Days Are Over: Why we fine-tuned LLMs for LogQL

Siddharth Balyan, Independent researcher

13:40–14:05

Chatbot security: safeguarding RAG chatbots from induced hostile hallucinations

Sachin Dharashivkar, Founder at TrojanVectors

13:45–14:15

Surfing through chaos - running IPL from outside the cricket field

Jatin Katyal, Senior DevOps Engineer at Viacom18 Media Pvt Ltd

13:55–14:05

Transition

14:05–14:15

Transition

14:05–14:30

Sponsored talk: Using Java in low-latency applications

Lakshminarasimhan Sudarshan, Founding engineer- performance and research engineering lead at E6data

14:15–14:25

Transition

14:15–14:35

Community pitches

14:25–14:50

Empowering mobile UI automation at scale: dynamic emulator creation with PhonePe's Drove infrastructure

Chakravati Singh, MTS-Automation at PhonePe

14:30–14:40

Transition

14:35–15:00

Lightning Talks

14:40–15:25

Sponsored Round Table - Running infrastructure with data centres versus cloud

Jay Chawda (Head Of Engineering - SRE), Prathap Varma (Head Of Engineering - SRE), Srijon Biswas (Head Of Engineering - Engineering Development); moderated by Sujaikumar J (Nutanix)

14:50–15:00

Transiton

15:00–15:40

ABC of LLMOps: what it takes to run self-hosted LLMs

Jaideep Khandelwal, Co-founder and CTO at One2N Consulting

15:00–15:10

Transition

15:10–15:30

Security engineering track - wrap-up

15:25–15:55

Evening break

15:30–16:00

Evening break

15:40–16:10

Evening break

16:00–17:00

Open Source AI Community - kick-off meet-up

16:10–16:40

Re-imagining data reactivity: the story of DiceDB

Arpit Bhayani, Creator of DiceDB

16:40–16:50

Transition

16:50–17:10

Wrap-up session - Systems Engineering Track

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