Talks & Speaking - Pratik Parikh

Speaker Profile

Pratik is a Lead DevOps Engineer, Cloud Native Mumbai organizer and Grafana Champion. He speaks about the unglamorous parts of cloud-native infrastructure - observability at scale, Kafka in production, platform engineering, and shipping software into on-prem and airgapped environments - always grounded in real production experience.

Pratik Parikh

Lead DevOps Engineer @ Simbian

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Observability & Monitoring at Scale
Kafka & Streaming Architectures
Kubernetes Platform Engineering
Multi-cloud & On-prem Operations
CI/CD & Release Engineering

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Cloud Native Mumbai - Organizer
Grafana Champion

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29+talks delivered

28events & communities

6recorded sessions

Speaking at Cloud Native Puja Meetup, Kolkata 2025

Speaking Map

Every city the speaking circuit has reached so far - from Mumbai meetups to DevOpsDays Atlanta.

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12cities spoken in

2countries

30in-person sessions

Event Timeline

Newest first, filterable by year. Recordings and slides linked where available.

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2026

conferenceOct 2026

Building Multi-Tenant SaaS on AWS: Architecture Patterns and Pitfalls

AWS Student Community Day Thane 2026Thane, India

Patterns and real-world lessons from running multi-tenant SaaS on AWS - tenant isolation strategies, shared-vs-dedicated resource tradeoffs, IAM boundaries, and the scaling decisions that bite you later. Hosted by the AWS Student Community at A.P. Shah Institute of Technology (APSIT) for 400+ students and professionals.

AWS
SaaS
Multi-Tenancy
Cloud Architecture

conferenceSep 2026

Operating OpenSearch the Kubernetes Way: Practical Lessons from Running Logging at Scale

OpenSearchCon North America 2026San Jose, USA

Real-world experience deploying, operating and scaling OpenSearch on Kubernetes as the primary logging and search platform across multiple clusters and cloud providers. Covering sharding strategies, ISM policies, FluentBit/FluentD ingestion, disk pressure, cluster recovery, snapshot/restore, and zero-downtime operations.

OpenSearch
Kubernetes
Observability
Logging
Operators

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meetupSep 2026

Beyond Deployment: Operationalizing Grafana for Day Two Operations

Cloud Native Mumbai Sept MeetupMumbai, India

Running Grafana on Kubernetes is easy to start and hard to operate well. Deploying via kube-prometheus-stack, building dashboards and alerts with PromQL, and going further - managing dashboards as code with Terraform and templatising them for reuse across teams and clusters. Hosted at DevX Mumbai.

Grafana
Observability
Kubernetes
Prometheus
Terraform

meetupAug 2026

Introduction to Containers, Kubernetes and Cloud Native

Cloud Native Mumbai × ITM Skills UniversityMumbai, India

Guest session at ITM Skills University for students from first year to final year: covering containers, Kubernetes, and the cloud native ecosystem, with discussions on open source communities and career paths. Co-presented with Afzal Hassan.

Cloud Native
Kubernetes
Containers
Open Source

meetupAug 2026

Strimzin' Ain't Easy: Running Kafka on Kubernetes with Strimzi

Apache Kafka Meetup PunePune, India

How the Strimzi operator manages Kafka clusters on Kubernetes - walking through real manifests, watching a cluster come to life with KRaft (no ZooKeeper), and covering the production gotchas nobody puts in the blog posts. Live demo included. Hosted at Data-Axle, ICC Tech Park, Shivajinagar.

Kafka
Kubernetes
Strimzi
KRaft
Operators

conferenceJun 2026

Telemetry at Scale: Best Ways to Use Prometheus and Thanos with Grafana

GrafanaCON Local PunePune, India

From zero monitoring to a robust multi-cluster Kubernetes observability stack - architectures from single cluster to multi-cloud, with pros, cons and use cases. Hosted at the InfraCloud office.

Observability
Prometheus
Grafana
Thanos

meetupMay 2026

Unpacking Kafka on Kubernetes - Solving Application Scaling Challenges

Kafka Pune MeetupPune, India

How Kafka, introduced as a service layer across Kubernetes clusters, turned a WebSocket-bound architecture into a scalable, resilient multi-cloud system. Hosted at the Data Axle office.

Kafka
Kubernetes
WebSockets

meetupFeb 2026

Kafka in Action: Solving Application Challenges and Deploying on Kubernetes

Kafka Mumbai MeetupMumbai, India

Why Kafka became the service layer for a system spanning multiple Kubernetes clusters and clouds - the original architecture's limits, decoupling, and migrating across providers. Hosted at the Quantiphi office.

Kafka
Kubernetes
WebSockets

podcastFeb 2026

The Future of DevOps Is Not Just Tools

Rollback Café (with Animesh Pathak)Remote

Episode 2 of Rollback Café - DevOps beyond tools and pipelines: culture, resilience and scaling, and how a late-night deployment outage reshaped the way Pratik weighs metrics against team culture. On Spotify Feb 13 and YouTube Feb 23, 2026.

DevOps
Platform Engineering
Developer Experience

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Workshops for Colleges & Coding Clubs

Beyond conference stages - I also run hands-on sessions for students on Kubernetes, Kafka, observability, and cloud native technologies. 4 colleges and counting.

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