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Raptors Conference 2026 · Wednesday 21 October

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Starts Wednesday 21 October, 13:55 UTC

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    Opening

    1. Welcome to Raptors Conference 2026

    It broke in production

    1. Lakshmi Priya Gopalsamy
      Lakshmi Priya Gopalsamy Senior Engineering Manager, Target Corporation The AI Velocity Paradox (How GenAI exposes the delivery debt your DORA metrics have been hiding)
    2. Between talks: papers from the Proceedings
    3. Smit Nitinkumar Shah
      Smit Nitinkumar Shah Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft Cache Invalidation Is Easy. It's the Refill That Takes You Down
    4. Rajesh Balaji
      Rajesh Balaji Senior Software Engineer & Cloud Architect, Costco Wholesale From Firefighting to Foresight: Re-engineering Our P1 Incident Response Pipeline
    5. Maksim Zayats
      Maksim Zayats Staff Software Engineer, Constructor Optimizing the Developer Feedback Loop: How to Ship Faster Without Sacrificing Reliability
    6. Ritvik Pandya
      Ritvik Pandya Engineering lead, JPMorgan Chase The Honest Service Mesh Adoption Framework doi.org/10.68495/rc.2026.C075
    7. Sushrutha Sreevathsa
      Sushrutha Sreevathsa Reliability leader, Yahoo Beyond Dashboards: Turning Production Signals into Reliable Decisions doi.org/10.68495/rc.2026.C087
    8. Akila Balasubramanian
      Akila Balasubramanian Technical leader, AI-powered observability Semantic Condensation of High-Cardinality Time Series for LLM-Driven Observability doi.org/10.68495/rc.2026.C063
    9. Rajkumar Sukumar
      Rajkumar Sukumar Lead, Azure cloud & AI initiatives, AT&T From Telemetry to Autonomous Operations: AI-Powered Processing, Self-Healing Kubernetes with F5 WAF doi.org/10.68495/rc.2026.C086

    Under load

    1. Tsira Gvritishvili
      Tsira Gvritishvili IT Solution Architect, Bank of Georgia Unified Offers Hub: Standardizing at Super-App Scale doi.org/10.68495/rc.2026.C089
    2. Rohit Wadhwa
      Rohit Wadhwa Senior Software Engineer & Architect Real-Time Retail Integrity: Applying Event-Driven Architectures to Address the $112B Retail Shrink Crisis
    3. Max Borodin
      Max Borodin Senior Product Manager, Simple App Engineering Gamification at Scale: Production Lessons from Building Streaks and XP for 21M Users
    4. Gaurav Agrawal
      Gaurav Agrawal Senior Distinguished Engineer, Sam's Club Tech Building eCommerce Systems That Survive Their Own Success

    The migration you live with

    1. Duygu Unlu
      Duygu Unlu Enterprise technology leader, SAP transformation Virtual Stock, Real Constraints: Production-grade visibility between two incompatible ERP's — without breaking either doi.org/10.68495/rc.2026.C018
    2. Amit Kumar Garg
      Amit Kumar Garg Engineering & data platform leader Reduce Before You Modernize: SQL Data Reduction for Lower Cost, Fewer Licenses, and Faster Migration
    3. Muthupalaniappan Ramanathan
      Muthupalaniappan Ramanathan Senior Software Engineer, DoorDash The Hard Parts of SQL Translation: Lessons from Building Cross-Engine Compatibility at Scale
    4. Pravin Alhat
      Pravin Alhat Senior Software Engineer, US telecommunications Migrating a Billion-Document Corpus with Zero Downtime and Continuous Reconciliation

    Data as a system

    1. Venkateswarlu Mullangi
      Venkateswarlu Mullangi Product Head, ViaPlus by Vinci Highways The Ghost Toll: How ML Caught the Errors Silent Monitoring Missed doi.org/10.68495/rc.2026.C094
    2. Between talks: papers from the Proceedings
    3. Anudeep Katangoori
      Anudeep Katangoori Data Platform Engineering Manager, Swift Transportation From Telematics to Trust: Turning Geotab Data Into an AI-Driven Fleet Platform
    4. Between talks: papers from the Proceedings
    5. Tarun Kumar Chatterjee
      Tarun Kumar Chatterjee Lead Software Engineer, Presidio 83% Faster, 10x Fewer Errors: Engineering a Self-Healing Payment Saga Tracker doi.org/10.68495/rc.2026.C074

    Shipping AI for real

    1. Harshit Kohli
      Harshit Kohli Senior Technical Account Manager Production Patterns for Real-Time GenAI Agents: Failures, Fixes & What Actually Works
    2. Prajwal Pitlehra
      Prajwal Pitlehra Co-founder, Monaco Research Making an AI trading agent stronger in production
    3. Ravali Kandur
      Ravali Kandur Distributed systems & AI platform engineer When AI Meets Distributed Systems doi.org/10.68495/rc.2026.C031
    4. Prakash Nagaraj
      Prakash Nagaraj Head of Service Delivery, Quadrant Technologies Governed Multi-Agent Architecture for Enterprise AI Service Delivery at Scale

    When AI can't be trusted

    1. Alexander Kalankhodzhaev
      Alexander Kalankhodzhaev Blockchain tech lead, Rust infrastructure for Solana Don’t Just Test It, Prove It: Verifying AI-Written Rust doi.org/10.68495/rc.2026.C030
    2. Between talks: papers from the Proceedings
    3. Manish Gupta
      Manish Gupta Senior AI Solution Architect, Design Laboratory Inc. Making AI Governance Part of Your Code, Not Just Paperwork doi.org/10.68495/rc.2026.C042
    4. Anurag Nedunuri
      Anurag Nedunuri Lead Solutions Architect Orchestrating Enterprise AI: A Framework for Integrating LLMs into Regulated Workflows
    5. Lalith Lakshmi Chaitanya Kumar Mangalagiri
      Lalith Lakshmi Chaitanya Kumar Mangalagiri Senior Software Development Engineer Securing Agentic AI
    6. Pavlo Martinovych Senior Product Manager, Uptiq The Coordination Layer: How Multi-Agent AI Actually Works in Banks Slides read by an AI voice from the author's own words doi.org/10.68495/rc.2026.C057

    Assume breach

    1. Between talks: papers from the Proceedings
    2. Dinesh Jagadeesan
      Dinesh Jagadeesan Engineering leader Privacy Is a Distributed Systems Problem
    3. Between talks: papers from the Proceedings
    4. Vamsi Viswanath Bethamsetty Senior Software Engineer Real-Time Privacy-Preserving AI Infrastructure Using Distributed k-Anonymity Enforcement doi.org/10.68495/rc.2026.C090
    5. Bala Thripura Akasam
      Bala Thripura Akasam Application Security Manager Shift-Left Security for AI-Generated Code: From Detection Overload to Build-Time Risk Reduction

    Craft and the horizon

    1. Anton Sinitsyn
      Anton Sinitsyn Senior Android Engineer Production-Ready Android WebView: Security, Performance, Observability
    2. Nikita Vasilev
      Nikita Vasilev Senior iOS Engineer The Death of Unnecessary Thread Hopping: Inside Swift 6.2 Approachable Concurrency doi.org/10.68495/rc.2026.C055
    3. Siarhei Krupenich
      Siarhei Krupenich Engineering leader, mobile Android Is Not Just Mobile: Lessons from TV, Auto, and Wear doi.org/10.68495/rc.2026.C083
    4. Anushree Nagvekar
      Anushree Nagvekar Manager of Software Engineering, AEye LiDAR Challenges in Camera-Centric Perception doi.org/10.68495/rc.2026.C049
    5. Between talks: papers from the Proceedings
    6. Oleksandr Tkachenko Creator of Skeleton Mammoth (open-source CSS) Let Your Browser Take a Breather with Scheduler.yield()
    7. Gopi Chand Vegineni Senior Software Engineer Beyond Chatbots: Designing AI-Native Frontend Experiences for Enterprise Applications Slides read by an AI voice from the author's own words doi.org/10.68495/rc.2026.C092

    Open track

    1. Hari Krishna Bethanaboina
      Hari Krishna Bethanaboina Lead Solution Architect From Transactions to Trust: Reinventing Supplier Management doi.org/10.68495/rc.2026.C024

    Data as a system

    1. Ishan Deepak Shah Staff Software Engineer When Event-Driven Systems Become the Source of Truth: Lessons from CDC, Kafka, and Replay-Safe Inventory Platforms Slides read by an AI voice from the author's own words doi.org/10.68495/rc.2026.C028

    Open track

    1. Neha Asthana
      Neha Asthana Identity & Access Management Architect AI-Driven Identity Governance Framework (AIGF) doi.org/10.68495/rc.2026.C067
    2. Neeraj Gaddam
      Neeraj Gaddam Senior Software Engineering Manager & Principal Architect Production-Grade Operational Intelligence with Real-Time Streaming Data Architectures
    3. Karishma Verma
      Karishma Verma Software Development Manager Intelligent CI/CD at Scale: Autonomous Agents Transforming Software Delivery Pipelines doi.org/10.68495/rc.2026.C032
    4. Yevhen Bozhenko
      Yevhen Bozhenko Test Less Through the UI: A Smarter Testing Strategy

    Assume breach

    1. Illia Haidar
      Illia Haidar Senior Software Developer Securing MCP Servers in 2026: Building MCP Trust Checker and the Algorithm Behind It

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