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How does the submission process work
Every submission receives feedback via an online review. Submissions made between 1 March and 20 April 2025 will be considered for Rootconf 2025 Annual Conference.
Online reviews take place during evenings on weekdays, where two reviewers give feedback to each submission on validity (correctness), whether the solution worked for the organization or not, and if there is any novelty factor proposed in the talk/approach.
The track curators will select talks from reviewed submissions - as per fit with their respective tracks.
Follow the guidelines shared in the submission form to make a solid submission. Here are some examples of well-written Rootconf submissions:
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Accepting submissions till 20 Apr 2025, 11:59 PM
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Abhiram R Editor Web Development with Flask 3.0Web Development with Flask 3.0 Introduction This workshop introduces beginner programmers to Web Development with Flask 3.0. It walks through the creation of a money management application and demonstrates Flask 3.0’s async capabilities as well. more
Type of submission: Hands-on workshop
Topic of your submission: Other
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Raj Suvariya Behind the Scenes: Automating TiDB Maintenance with K8s Magic{Describe your talk/session in 2-3 paragraphs} Modern distributed databases like TiDB offer unparalleled scalability and reliability, but managing their planned maintenance in a production-grade environment can pose significant challenges. At Flipkart, we automated this critical process using Kubernetes Operators, enabling seamless management of TiDB clusters with no downtime. This talk will expl… more
Topic of your submission: Databases
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
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Shruthi Chittanooru From SIEM to AI: Automating Security Operations with GenAIIn this talk, we will showcase how GenAI-powered security automation can revolutionize threat modeling, threat detection, incident response, and log analysis compared to traditional SIEM(Security Information & Event Management) systems. We begin by demonstrating a real-world security incident where a system logs multiple failed login attempts followed by a successful one, indicating a possible br… more
Topic of your submission: AI/GenAI for Security
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
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Prachi Jamdade Why Repo Grokking is Important for Software Development and it is the Future of Coding with AIWith so much hype around AI tools, developers can now build and ship faster. Tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Cursor make it super easy to write code and vibe with it. But sometimes, these tools fail to understand the context and intent behind prompts. When you provide them with the code and details first, they can finally answer your queries. However, the code they generate might not align with t… more
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
Topic of your submission: AI infrastructure and operations
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Bharath Nallapeta RRR: Rapid, Resilient, Reliable - Cluster Provisioning with k0rdentAbstract MLOps isn’t just about deploying AI models - it’s about building a scalable, repeatable, and automated AI platform. Setting up GPU-powered clusters, model-serving, and monitoring for AI workloads can be a nightmare of manual configurations, slow iteration cycles, and fragmented tooling. more
Topic of your submission: Platform engineering
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
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Sparsh K  The Firewall Project: Open Source, Shift-Left, Security PlatformAfter becoming immensely frustrated and experiencing all the emotions that come with the struggles of implementing application security into our organization’s SDLC, we finally reached a breaking point. That’s when we decided, “That’s it!” more
Topic of your submission: Supply chain security
Type of submission: Demo - side project; open source project; something I have built in my org
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Achanandhi M CodeGate: Consume AI Coding Assistants tools in Confidence{Describe your talk/session in 2-3 paragraphs} AI coding assistants are significantly increasing developers’ productivity. However, despite their many benefits, there is one major problem—these assistants rely on LLMs as their knowledge base, which comes with knowledge cutoffs. As a result, AI coding assistants sometimes generate buggy code and include vulnerable packages. In my talk, we will exp… more
Topic of your submission: AI/GenAI for Security
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
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Jinu Rose John Building Reliable Services with SLOs and Error BudgetsSession Overview: In this session, we will delve into the essential concepts of Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Error Budgets within the framework of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Attendees will learn how to effectively establish structured SLOs that align with user expectations and business goals, allowing for a strategic balance between maintaining high system reliability and enabling… more
Topic of your submission: SRE
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
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Anudeep Cache Me If You Can: Building a Lightning-Fast Analytics CacheThis session will talk about how we build an ETL free, asynchronous, on-demand, analytics results caching platform to power our CNAPP and XDR platform. In this session we will also talk about what were our unique challeneges in terms of performance, scale, usability, access control and most importantly state and nature of the product that necessitated buildling the solution we did. Some of which … more
Topic of your submission: Platform engineering
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
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Anudeep CDC - Clear Data Colon: Flushing Out Bottlenecks for Smooth-Flowing AnalyticsThis Session we will talk about how we used change data capture as a means to scale up perfromance and reliability of analytics when combined with scaleable state management like HUDI and powerful OLAP engine like Trino, increase database reliability by offloading analytics workload and cater to our data governance needs. more
Topic of your submission: Distributed data systems
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
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Kamalika ISO Compliant Datacenters - How I figured a GCP region was not DR readyDescription: Most cloud providers boast about their compliance certifications, but are they really compliance ready. Ex: GCP boasts about their global fiber optic networking, but in reality one of their regions in one of worlds most disaster prone countries dint meet the compliance standards for disaster readiness, data localization or resilient connectivity. So how do we solve this? more
Topic of your submission: Supply chain security
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
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Kamalika A Bank On CloudDescription: This session is based on one of my real life projects of designing and developing a DevOps driven modern infrastructure for a fully cloud-native digital banking application. An Indonesia based banking company wanted to build a fully digital mobile banking application that would help them to become a strong tech-based bank embedded in Indonesia’s digital ecosystem. They wanted a moder… more
Topic of your submission: Platform engineering
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
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Srinivas Anant Observability in Kubernetes: The good, the bad, and the uglyOverview With every Kubernetes cluster, observability has become a daunting task. Understanding complex, distributed workload performance, health, and behavior is critical for ensuring reliability and efficiency. This talk will explore best practices for observability in Kubernetes environments, covering logs, traces, metrics, events, and uptime. more
Topic of your submission: Observability
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
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raja nagori  Nightingale: Docker for PentestersNightingale is an innovative open-source tool designed to simplify and streamline the process of penetration testing. Addressing the complexities and time-consuming setup required for effective vulnerability assessments, Nightingale leverages Docker to provide a consistent, repeatable, and resource-efficient testing environment. This tool eliminates the need for multiple installations, making it … more
Type of submission: Demo - side project; open source project; something I have built in my org
Topic of your submission: Other
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Deepam Kanjani AI Threat Modeling Gone Rogue: Protecting Security from Semantic DriftIn the session, we’ll delve into the critical topic of AI-based threat modelling. You’ll gain valuable insights into how seemingly minor semantic drifts and manipulated inputs can drastically alter the effectiveness of your cybersecurity defences. This knowledge will be instrumental in protecting your systems from sophisticated attacks. more
Topic of your submission: AI/GenAI for Security
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
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Deepam Kanjani The Shadow Supply Chain: Protecting Your Software from Invisible Open-Source ThreatsThis session sheds light on the hidden risks lurking within indirect or transitive dependencies—the “shadow supply chain”—that quietly introduce vulnerabilities into your applications. Explore how invisible update hijacking and dependency graph poisoning can silently compromise software integrity, leaving teams unaware and vulnerable. more
Topic of your submission: Supply chain security
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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Sandesh Kumar Gupta  The Right 'AIR' Mix: Fueling High-Performance PlatformsAt Flipkart, the widespread adoption of our homegrown managed platforms across engineering teams operating at an enormous scale has positioned our platforms offerings as mission-critical infrastructure. Supporting this scale across a multi-cloud environment necessitates high availability, uncompromising resilience, sustained performance, and continuous optimization. This session explores the intr… more
Topic of your submission: Platform engineering
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
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Samiksha Singhal "The CI/CD Security Stack: From Secret Scanning to Dashboard - A Complete Blueprint"Security tools like TruffleHog (secrets), OWASP Dependency-Check (SCA), Semgrep (SAST), ZAP (DAST), Trivy (containers), and Checkov (IaC) are essential - but without consolidation, they create alert fatigue and missed risks. This session delivers a complete playbook for: more
Type of submission: Demo - side project; open source project; something I have built in my org
Topic of your submission: CI/CD
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Saurabh Mishra [Navigating Kubernetes Challenges with Observability Insights]complexity often brings operational challenges. Observability—encompassing logs, metrics, and traces—plays a critical role in identifying, diagnosing, and resolving issues in real-time. This session delves into how observability insights can help teams navigate common Kubernetes challenges, including performance bottlenecks, resource mismanagement, and unpredictable failures. Attendees will learn… more
Topic of your submission: Observability
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
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kabilesh PR Scaling TiDB for Large-scale ApplicationsScaling databases for large-scale applications is no easy feat. As data volumes grow, ensuring seamless horizontal scalability, high availability, and performance becomes a challenge. TiDB, a powerful distributed SQL database, is designed to handle these demands efficiently. more
Topic of your submission: Distributed data systems
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
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Keshav Malik Building and Scaling Open Source Security Pipeline @ LinkedInIn this session, we’ll learn how LinkedIn has engineered and scaled an open-source security pipeline to secure millions of packages across its expansive ecosystem. With a platform that serves over a billion members and processes millions of daily interactions, LinkedIn requires an efficient system to manage both internal and third-party packages securely. more
Topic of your submission: Supply chain security
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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Rohit Raveendran Zero-Trust Security Architecture for Fintech: Implementing Compliance Automation with Istio, OPA, and KubernetesTitle Zero-Trust Security Automation: Streamlining Fintech Compliance with Service Mesh and Policy-as-Code more
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
Topic of your submission: Performance engineering
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Mallikarjun Handling Multi DC / Hybrid Cloud constructs with Apache HBase on KubernetesDescription: Apache HBase is an open-source non-relational distributed database. It is developed as part of Apache Software Foundation’s Apache Hadoop project and runs on top of HDFS, providing Bigtable-like capabilities for Hadoop. more
Topic of your submission: Distributed data systems
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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Mallikarjun Architecture of Apache HBase BalancerDescription Apache HBase is an open-source non-relational distributed database modeled after Google’s Bigtable and written in Java. It is developed as part of Apache Software Foundation’s Apache Hadoop project and runs on top of HDFS, providing Bigtable-like capabilities for Hadoop more
Topic of your submission: Distributed data systems
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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Mallikarjun Designing database client wrappersDescription The Wrapper pattern generally encapsulates complex or non-expressive libraries within the specific domain of an application. Wrapper proves to be highly valuable when the default responses provided by these libraries are not sufficiently useful in their original form. more
Topic of your submission: Distributed data systems
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
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