Pushkar Gopalakrishna
Pushkar Gopalakrishna is a Staff Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building large-scale cloud infrastructure and distributed systems. Throughout his career, he has worked on some of the industry's most demanding production platforms, helping teams design and operate reliable, scalable, and fault-tolerant services. His work spans cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, platform engineering, service-oriented architectures, CI/CD systems, observability platforms, and infrastructure automation.
Session
Modern services depend on far more than compute- databases, messaging, observability, CI/CD, service meshes, IAM, and cloud resources must all work together reliably. Managing these consistently across production, staging, and developer environments remains a persistent challenge.This talk explores how open-source Kubernetes operators can be combined to build complete, isolated, self-service environments. Using Config Connector, Istio, Argo CD, observability operators, and Crossplane, we'll see how infrastructure, networking, deployment automation, and cloud resources compose into higher-level platform APIs.