Monster Scale Summit

Scaling isn’t just about multiplying outputs; it’s about amplifying impact, staying grounded, and adapting with purpose.” As a technology leader with over 20 years of experience, I’m passionate about building, scaling, and optimizing complex distributed systems. My focus areas include IoT, cloud engineering, big data, AI, and SaaS for enterprise and consumer applications. At Sleepnumber Labs, I lead engineering efforts across products, platforms, and data, driving innovation and meaningful changes.

Vinit is a seasoned software engineer with a demonstrated history of building on-premise and cloud-native distributed systems at scale. Currently, Vinit serves as a Lead Software Engineer at DocuSign, contributing to the Docusign’s Storage team. With expertise encompassing cloud storage, distributed systems, and virtualization technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, and the Linux Kernel, Vinit stands out as a thought leader in the tech industry. Throughout his career, Vinit has held pivotal roles at notable companies like Google, Box, Commvault, and Marvell, where he played an instrumental role in developing highly scalable and distributed cloud storage solutions. His proficiency in object-oriented design and systems programming, coupled with his capability to scale infrastructures to handle concurrent requests and planet-scale storage, positions him as a true expert in his field. Vinit is an alumnus of the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he earned a Master’s degree in Computer Science. His technical acumen and leadership capabilities are evident in his ability to mentor peers and collaborate effectively with industry leaders. Recognized for his impactful contributions, Vinit frequently engages with the tech community, participating in conferences. His dedication to advancing technological solutions is not only evident in his professional experiences but also in his commitment to ongoing learning and development exemplified by his educational achievements and professional accomplishments. Stay connected with Vinit through his LinkedIn profile to gain insights from his extensive knowledge of scalable design and distributed systems, as he continues to innovate and lead in the ever-evolving landscape of technology.

Have 15 years IT exp and 10 years of Freshworks experience. Works on Relational database and NoSQL’s

I am a professional software engineer for over eight years now, I have mostly worked with functional programming on large-scale distributed systems. Over time, I have found joy in speaking and writing about coding in general. I am a mentor at Springboard and Mentorcruise for aspiring engineers. Some of my articles and blogs are available here: https://mourjo.me

Bhakti Mehta is the author of “Developing RESTful Services with JAX-RS 2.0, WebSockets, and JSON, Packt Publishing”, (2013) and “RESTful Java Patterns and Best Practices, Packt Publishing” (2014). She has more than 24 years of experience in architecting, designing systems at scale. Currently Bhakti is the Senior Chief Architect, Confluence Cloud at Atlassian.

Bhakti has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering and a Master’s degree in Computer Science. Her areas of research include architecting solutions for resiliency, scalability, reliability, and performance with respect to server-side technologies, web services, and cloud applications.

Software engineer specializing in observability, performance, and reliability. Passionate about low-level languages, focusing on Rust and eBPF technology. Creator of bpftop.

Alex DeBrie is the Principal and Founder of DeBrie Advisory.

Tyler Wedin is a Vice President overseeing Core Platforms Site Reliability Engineering at American Express. He has 15+ years of experience designing, building, and operating critical infrastructure and applications. He is currently responsible for many critical authorizations and financial systems, and he has implemented innovative solutions across release management, resiliency, and observability. Prior to this role, Tyler led the data center network architecture and engineering teams, delivering the software-defined infrastructure stack supporting the company’s hybrid cloud model, and virtualizing and scaling enterprise network services.

Martin Kleppmann is an Associate Professor at the University of Cambridge.

Claire Adams is a Software Engineer at Slack. She has worked on scaling and maintaining Slack’s infrastructure to support over 32 million daily active users. Currently, she specializes in applying generative AI to search use cases to improve user productivity. Claire graduated summa cum laude from Barnard College of Columbia University with a degree in computer science and a minor in environmental science. In her free time, Claire plays water polo and enjoys going to the theater in New York City.

I’m a software engineer with experience at every level of the stack. My current learning efforts are focused on distributed systems and writing quality software, effectively.

Almog is an experienced infrastructure software engineer. He has worked on search infrastructure at LinkedIn, and most recently he was one of the top contributors to KSQL at Confluent. He is currently working on Kafka Streams at Responsive.

Dmytro Hnatiuk is a Principal Software Engineer at Wise, where he has been turning complex challenges into scalable solutions for eight years. With over a decade in the tech industry and a focused expertise in the Finance & Treasury domain for the last six years, he has successfully scaled systems tenfold by making pragmatic decisions at the right times. His approach involves understanding the big picture of database and application scalability and knowing exactly when to implement specific optimizations. At this conference, he is excited to share strategies that have proven successful in his work, helping others to navigate their own scalability challenges more effectively.

Domrev Igor is a Senior Developer at Visually.io.

Dominik Tornow is CEO and founder of Resonate HQ, Inc. Dominik focuses on correctness, reliability, and scalability of distributed systems. He is the author of Thinking in Distributed Systems.

Terence Liu is a domain expert in building and deploying machine learning models, vector search engines, and distributed computing/data systems. Being an academically trained computational physicist, he is passionate about performance computing, and the fundamental hardware/language/software breakthroughs that accelerate its progress. Terence works at Clearview AI, a software vendor for public safety technologies.

Matt has spent over 15 years working on low-level, high-performance systems and was previously the maintainer for the Linux kernel EFI subsystem while at Intel and SUSE. Most recently, Matt has focused on the performance of distributed systems and databases including leading a globally distributed team of engineers that contributed significant performance changes to the Apache Cassandra 5.0 release. He has co-authored papers on performance change detection and distributed systems testing and served on the ACM/SPEC ICPE program committee. Matt can often be found on Twitter, discussing topics such as software performance, benchmarking and statistics.

Avi, CTO of ScyllaDB, is known mostly for starting the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) project, the hypervisor underlying many production clouds. He has worked for Qumranet and Red Hat as KVM maintainer until December 2012. Avi is now CTO of ScyllaDB, a company that seeks to bring the same kind of innovation to the public cloud space.

Spencer Ho is an Architect at Salesforce.

Navya Alapati, a Senior Software Engineer at VISA USA, INC is celebrated for her innovative contributions to data processing with a robust background in designing, developing, maintaining and optimizing database solutions that drive business success. With a deep understanding of SQL Server’s capabilities, Navya Alapati has spearheaded numerous projects, delivering high-performance databases that support complex applications and large-scale data processing.

Beyond technical prowess, Navya is passionate about leveraging data for strategic decision-making and innovation. An advocate for continuous learning and community engagement, Navya frequently shares her knowledge through workshops, webinars, and conferences. She is dedicated to fostering a collaborative environment where knowledge and ideas are freely exchanged. As a speaker, Navya brings a wealth of practical experience and a passion for data-driven innovation. She aims to inspire and educate audiences on the latest advancements in SQL Server, data processing, and the transformative power of inclusive practices in technology.

Andrei has over 12 years of experience as a Software Engineer in building high-load distributed systems. Currently, he is developing cutting-edge ML infrastructure.

Gwen Shapira is the Co-Founder and CPO at Nile.

* Founding Engineer @poolside, hacking fun AI things at scale
* Ex-maintainer of ScyllaDB and Seastar
* Ex-Staff @Turso
* Maintainer of libSQL
* Wrote a few patches for the Linux kernel

João Pedro Lima is a Systems Engineer on the Linux Team at Cloudflare.

Dor is the CEO of ScyllaDB. Previously, Dor was part of the founding team of the KVM hypervisor under Qumranet that was acquired by Red Hat. At Red Hat Dor was managing the KVM and Xen development for several years. Dor holds an MSc from the Technion and a Phd in snowboarding.

Dzejla Medjedovic is the VP of Data at Social Explorer.

Srushith Repakula is an AWS Serverless Hero and the Head of Engineering at KonfHub, a one stop platform for technical conferences built on AWS stack, primarily using serverless and other associated services. His first taste of serverless was participating in the “AWS Chatbot Challenge” – he fell instantly in love with the technology and the unparalleled passion for Lambdas henceforth began.

He is passionate about building serverless applications and sharing his experiences at various events across the globe, and believes serverless is the future of software development and the way applications will be built moving forward. He also thinks it will empower every developer to easily migrate to the cloud and start building with the least friction. He anticipates serverless becoming the cheapest supercomputer at the hands of every developer!

Srushith recently founded the Tirupati AWS User Group and also started the first serverless-focused meetup group in Bangalore where he presents and encourages young passionate members to get involved: there are over 6,000+ members across both groups! He also started Serverless Saturdays, a monthly webinar focusing on everything serverless and helping developers not only kick start their serverless journey, but also provide an opportunity to get access to learnings and experiences from experts across the globe.

Tzach has a B.A. and MSc in Computer Science (Technion, Summa Cum Laude), and has had a 15 year career in development, system engineering and product management. In the past he worked in the Telecom domain, focusing on carrier grade systems, signaling, policy and charging applications.

Daniel Abadi is the Darnell-Kanal Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, where he performs research on database system architecture and implementation, especially at the intersection with scalable and distributed systems. He is best-known for the development of the storage and query execution engines of the C-Store (column-oriented database) prototype and deterministic, scalable, transactional, distributed systems such as Calvin. An ACM Fellow and recipient of numerous awards, Abadi received his PhD in 2008 from MIT. He blogs at DBMS Musings and tweets at @daniel_abadi.

Felipe Cardeneti Mendes is a Technical Director at ScyllaDB.

Pavel Emelyanov is a Principal Software Engineer at ScyllaDB.

Distributed computing and storage engineer for HPC, microservices and ML/Data platforms for many years. Evangelist of type-driven development and category theory for developers.

Benjamin Cane is a Distinguished Engineer at American Express, where he plays a pivotal role in the architecture, design, and engineering excellence of the Acquirer and Network Payments Platforms. With a focus on cloud-native technologies and practices, Ben specializes in building mission-critical and high-performance systems. His expertise has been instrumental in driving the evolution of American Express’ cloud-native payments platform. Beyond his contributions to American Express, Ben is an active open-source community member and has contributed to various projects.

Chris Riccomini is a software engineer, startup investor, and advisor, and author with more than 15 years of experience at major tech companies such as PayPal, LinkedIn, and WePay. He has been involved in open source throughout his career and is the author of Apache Samza. He’s co-author of The Missing README: A Guide for the New Software Engineer, and writes Materialized View, a weekly infrastructure newsletter.