System Architecture and Design

Presenters Ajay Athitya Ramanathan Source Conf42 SRE 2026 From Chatbots to Agents: Engineering Safe Autonomy in Production 🚀 In the rapidly evolving world of Artificial Intelligence, we are witnessing a massive shift. AI is no longer just a tool that assists humans; it is becoming a system that takes action. Ajay Athitya Ramanathan, a Data and AI Engineer at Fort Square, specializes in this very frontier: integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into enterprise systems and designing workflows where AI interacts with real production data. ...

Presenters Rakesh Kumar Kavsari Gopal Source Conf42 SRE 2026 Building Unbreakable Systems: A Resilient AI Platform for Crisis-Ready Healthcare and Finance 🚀 Hello, tech enthusiasts! Rakesh Kumar Kavsari Gopal here, a Technical Architect with 17 years of experience steering enterprise-level software solutions across vital sectors like healthcare, banking, finance, and e-commerce. My passion lies in crafting distributed systems, resilient platform designs, and AI infrastructure for mission-critical environments. As a certified Google Professional Cloud Solution Architect, AWS Solution Architect Professional, and AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialty with hands-on expertise in Kafka (both on-premises and cloud), I bridge the gap between enterprise reliability engineering and real-world crisis preparedness, especially for the vulnerable communities served by healthcare and financial systems. ...

Presenters Savi Grover Source Conf42 SRE 2026 From Alerts to Answers: Revolutionizing SRE with Observability, AI, and Agentic Ops 🚀 The world of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is facing a monumental challenge: data deluge. We’ve moved from monolithic applications to sprawling microservices, a shift that has amplified our telemetry data by a staggering 100x. Yet, despite this flood of information, SREs are drowning in noise, experiencing alert fatigue, and finding themselves information-poor when it truly matters. The core problem? Traditional monitoring alerts us to symptoms, but leaves us to manually hunt for the causes. ...

Presenters Prajakta Talathi Source Conf42 SRE 2026 🚀 Beyond Accuracy: Operating Predictive Analytics with SRE Precision In the high-stakes world of education finance, a model is only as good as the decisions it enables. Imagine shipping a model with stellar test results, only to watch it stumble in the real world when student funding and tuition timelines are on the line. I am Prajakta Talathi, and I work at the intersection of data strategy, analytics, and business execution. Today, we explore how to move beyond simply shipping models to operating them as reliable services using Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles. ...

Presenters Abhiram Potharaju Source Conf42 SRE 2026 🤖 Reliable AI for Safer Healthcare: Elevating Clinical Handoffs with Site Reliability Engineering 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts and healthcare innovators! 👋 Abhiram Potharaju here, and today we’re diving deep into a topic that sits at the intersection of cutting-edge AI and critical patient care: reliable AI for clinical handoffs. This isn’t just about making software smarter; it’s about fundamentally improving patient safety during those pivotal moments when care responsibility shifts. ...