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Opening
- Welcome to Raptors Conference 2026
It broke in production
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Lakshmi Priya Gopalsamy Senior Engineering Manager, Target Corporation The AI Velocity Paradox (How GenAI exposes the delivery debt your DORA metrics have been hiding) - Between talks: papers from the Proceedings
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Smit Nitinkumar Shah Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft Cache Invalidation Is Easy. It's the Refill That Takes You Down -
Rajesh Balaji Senior Software Engineer & Cloud Architect, Costco Wholesale From Firefighting to Foresight: Re-engineering Our P1 Incident Response Pipeline -
Maksim Zayats Staff Software Engineer, Constructor Optimizing the Developer Feedback Loop: How to Ship Faster Without Sacrificing Reliability -
Ritvik Pandya Engineering lead, JPMorgan Chase The Honest Service Mesh Adoption Framework doi.org/10.68495/rc.2026.C075 -
Sushrutha Sreevathsa Reliability leader, Yahoo Beyond Dashboards: Turning Production Signals into Reliable Decisions doi.org/10.68495/rc.2026.C087 -
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 -
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
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Tsira Gvritishvili IT Solution Architect, Bank of Georgia Unified Offers Hub: Standardizing at Super-App Scale doi.org/10.68495/rc.2026.C089 -
Rohit Wadhwa Senior Software Engineer & Architect Real-Time Retail Integrity: Applying Event-Driven Architectures to Address the $112B Retail Shrink Crisis -
Max Borodin Senior Product Manager, Simple App Engineering Gamification at Scale: Production Lessons from Building Streaks and XP for 21M Users -
Gaurav Agrawal Senior Distinguished Engineer, Sam's Club Tech Building eCommerce Systems That Survive Their Own Success
The migration you live with
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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 -
Amit Kumar Garg Engineering & data platform leader Reduce Before You Modernize: SQL Data Reduction for Lower Cost, Fewer Licenses, and Faster Migration -
Muthupalaniappan Ramanathan Senior Software Engineer, DoorDash The Hard Parts of SQL Translation: Lessons from Building Cross-Engine Compatibility at Scale -
Pravin Alhat Senior Software Engineer, US telecommunications Migrating a Billion-Document Corpus with Zero Downtime and Continuous Reconciliation
Data as a system
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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 - Between talks: papers from the Proceedings
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Anudeep Katangoori Data Platform Engineering Manager, Swift Transportation From Telematics to Trust: Turning Geotab Data Into an AI-Driven Fleet Platform - Between talks: papers from the Proceedings
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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
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Harshit Kohli Senior Technical Account Manager Production Patterns for Real-Time GenAI Agents: Failures, Fixes & What Actually Works -
Prajwal Pitlehra Co-founder, Monaco Research Making an AI trading agent stronger in production -
Ravali Kandur Distributed systems & AI platform engineer When AI Meets Distributed Systems doi.org/10.68495/rc.2026.C031 -
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
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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 - Between talks: papers from the Proceedings
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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 -
Anurag Nedunuri Lead Solutions Architect Orchestrating Enterprise AI: A Framework for Integrating LLMs into Regulated Workflows -
Lalith Lakshmi Chaitanya Kumar Mangalagiri Senior Software Development Engineer Securing Agentic AI - 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
- Between talks: papers from the Proceedings
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Dinesh Jagadeesan Engineering leader Privacy Is a Distributed Systems Problem - Between talks: papers from the Proceedings
- Vamsi Viswanath Bethamsetty Senior Software Engineer Real-Time Privacy-Preserving AI Infrastructure Using Distributed k-Anonymity Enforcement doi.org/10.68495/rc.2026.C090
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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
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Anton Sinitsyn Senior Android Engineer Production-Ready Android WebView: Security, Performance, Observability -
Nikita Vasilev Senior iOS Engineer The Death of Unnecessary Thread Hopping: Inside Swift 6.2 Approachable Concurrency doi.org/10.68495/rc.2026.C055 -
Siarhei Krupenich Engineering leader, mobile Android Is Not Just Mobile: Lessons from TV, Auto, and Wear doi.org/10.68495/rc.2026.C083 -
Anushree Nagvekar Manager of Software Engineering, AEye LiDAR Challenges in Camera-Centric Perception doi.org/10.68495/rc.2026.C049 - Between talks: papers from the Proceedings
- Oleksandr Tkachenko Creator of Skeleton Mammoth (open-source CSS) Let Your Browser Take a Breather with Scheduler.yield()
- 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
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Hari Krishna Bethanaboina Lead Solution Architect From Transactions to Trust: Reinventing Supplier Management doi.org/10.68495/rc.2026.C024
Data as a system
- 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
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Neha Asthana Identity & Access Management Architect AI-Driven Identity Governance Framework (AIGF) doi.org/10.68495/rc.2026.C067 -
Neeraj Gaddam Senior Software Engineering Manager & Principal Architect Production-Grade Operational Intelligence with Real-Time Streaming Data Architectures -
Karishma Verma Software Development Manager Intelligent CI/CD at Scale: Autonomous Agents Transforming Software Delivery Pipelines doi.org/10.68495/rc.2026.C032 -
Yevhen Bozhenko Test Less Through the UI: A Smarter Testing Strategy
Assume breach
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Illia Haidar Senior Software Developer Securing MCP Servers in 2026: Building MCP Trust Checker and the Algorithm Behind It
The speakers of Raptors Conference 2026
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Lakshmi Priya Gopalsamy Senior Engineering Manager, Target Corporation -
Smit Nitinkumar Shah Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft -
Rajesh Balaji Senior Software Engineer & Cloud Architect, Costco Wholesale -
Maksim Zayats Staff Software Engineer, Constructor -
Ritvik Pandya Engineering lead, JPMorgan Chase -
Sushrutha Sreevathsa Reliability leader, Yahoo -
Akila Balasubramanian Technical leader, AI-powered observability -
Rajkumar Sukumar Lead, Azure cloud & AI initiatives, AT&T -
Tsira Gvritishvili IT Solution Architect, Bank of Georgia -
Rohit Wadhwa Senior Software Engineer & Architect -
Max Borodin Senior Product Manager, Simple App -
Gaurav Agrawal Senior Distinguished Engineer, Sam's Club Tech -
Duygu Unlu Enterprise technology leader, SAP transformation -
Amit Kumar Garg Engineering & data platform leader -
Muthupalaniappan Ramanathan Senior Software Engineer, DoorDash -
Pravin Alhat Senior Software Engineer, US telecommunications -
Venkateswarlu Mullangi Product Head, ViaPlus by Vinci Highways -
Anudeep Katangoori Data Platform Engineering Manager, Swift Transportation -
Tarun Kumar Chatterjee Lead Software Engineer, Presidio -
Harshit Kohli Senior Technical Account Manager -
Prajwal Pitlehra Co-founder, Monaco Research -
Ravali Kandur Distributed systems & AI platform engineer -
Prakash Nagaraj Head of Service Delivery, Quadrant Technologies -
Alexander Kalankhodzhaev Blockchain tech lead, Rust infrastructure for Solana -
Manish Gupta Senior AI Solution Architect, Design Laboratory Inc. -
Anurag Nedunuri Lead Solutions Architect -
Lalith Lakshmi Chaitanya Kumar Mangalagiri Senior Software Development Engineer - Pavlo Martinovych Senior Product Manager, Uptiq
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Dinesh Jagadeesan Engineering leader - Vamsi Viswanath Bethamsetty Senior Software Engineer
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Bala Thripura Akasam Application Security Manager -
Anton Sinitsyn Senior Android Engineer -
Nikita Vasilev Senior iOS Engineer -
Siarhei Krupenich Engineering leader, mobile -
Anushree Nagvekar Manager of Software Engineering, AEye - Oleksandr Tkachenko Creator of Skeleton Mammoth (open-source CSS)
- Gopi Chand Vegineni Senior Software Engineer
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Hari Krishna Bethanaboina Lead Solution Architect - Ishan Deepak Shah Staff Software Engineer
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Neha Asthana Identity & Access Management Architect -
Neeraj Gaddam Senior Software Engineering Manager & Principal Architect -
Karishma Verma Software Development Manager -
Yevhen Bozhenko -
Illia Haidar Senior Software Developer