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
Every city the speaking circuit has reached so far — from Mumbai meetups to DevOpsDays Atlanta.
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Newest first, filterable by year. Recordings and slides linked where available.
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.
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 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.
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.