Platform Engineering meet-up - Jan 8

Platform Engineering meet-up - Jan 8

Real systems. Real engineers. Real lessons.

🧩 About the meet-up

Platform engineering is one of the fastest-growing disciplines in technology - sitting at the intersection of infrastructure, developer experience, and reliability.
Bangalore, with its thriving ecosystem of unicorns, SaaS scale-ups, fintech disruptors, and big tech players, is the perfect stage for these conversations.

Rootconf’s Platform Engineering meet-ups, curated by:

  • Bharadwaj Embar, Engineering Manager at Nutanix, and
  • Talina Shrotriya, Senior Engineering Manager at Couchbase,

The meet-ups are designed as community spaces for practitioners to share real-world stories, outcomes, and lessons learned from building and scaling platforms.

📅 Thursday, 8 January
🕑 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM
📍 Quintype Technologies, Bangalore
🔗 Schedule and registration: https://hasgeek.com/rootconf/platform-engineering-meet-up-jan-8/schedule

🎙️ Featured talks and demos

meet-up poster

  1. How KubeElasti enables native scale-to-zero in Kubernetes, cutting idle costs without code changes or reliability trade-offs.
  2. How Deliveroo rolled out EC2 Spot Instances across thousands of ECS services - using automation, scoring, and guardrails to cut costs without compromising reliability.
  3. A deep dive into how Confluent scales microservice deployments using Halyard to safely and progressively release 1,000+ services across thousands of Kubernetes clusters.

🙌 Meet the reviewers and community contributors

This meet-up was made possible with insights and feedback from the community reviewers:

  • Kumar Abhijeet (Index Exchange)
  • Madhusudhan Sambojhu (Able.do)
  • Piyush Goel (Razorpay)
  • Prajna Kandarpa (Apariva Systems)
  • Rolland Santimano (Rubrik)
  • Sudheer Bhat (Inmobi)
  • Sreekanth Sundarrajan (Inmobi)
  • Suraj Nath (Grafana Labs)
  • Vivek Pemavat (Acceldata)

💡 Why you should attend

  • Hear real-world lessons from engineers building at massive scale.
  • Connect with peers working on observability, CI/CD, deployment safety, and ML infrastructure.
  • Walk away with ideas, tools, and blueprints for platform reliability and efficiency.

🤝 Thank you to our hosts

🏢 Quintype Technologies - for hosting this meet-up.

🧭 How to attend

📞 Contact
💬 Discuss - https://hasgeek.com/rootconf/platform-engineering-meet-up-jan-8/comments
📧 Email: info@hasgeek.com
📱 Call/WhatsApp: +91 7676332020

Featured submissions

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  • Aakash Singhal

    Cost Optimisation in ECS: Integrating Spot Instances at Scale

    Description This session walks through how we introduced EC2 Spot Instances across thousands of production ECS services in a large, multi-cluster environment. We’ll cover the architecture and the objective criteria used to determine Spot eligibility, along with the automated system we built to manage it, powered by Lambda functions, periodic evaluators, service-level checks, and a central orchest… more

    26 Nov 2025

  • Mustajib Mohammed Khan

    Scaling microservices with Halyard at Confluent

    This presentation, introduces the Halyard system designed to manage the complexity of deploying and releasing approximately 1,000 internal microservices across around 5,000 Kubernetes clusters at Confluent. It highlights the massive scale of the deployment infrastructure, which is organized into various deployment groups (e.g., devel, prod-canary, prod), and sets the stage by outlining the challe… more

    20 Dec 2025

Venue

Quintype Technologies India Ltd

29, 3rd Floor, HAL Old Airport Rd, opposite Kemp Fort Mall,

Murugeshpalya, Jeevan Bima Nagar

Bengaluru - 560017

Karnataka, IN

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