Speaker Bios

Gana Chandrasekaran

Gana is a Cloud Solutions Lead working for Confluent dedicated to Microsoft with the core focus to develop the technical architecture and joint solutions with Azure. Gana was awarded as most valuable player (MVP) Microsoft -2019 for presenting the unique idea in Virtual Gaming Cloud during his employment at Microsoft. Gana was also awarded as best influential speaker about “ Applying ML models at Retail use Cases” in an AI Symposium event hosted by Microsoft. Gana has been supporting retailers for decades by taking their legacy applications and migrating data, designing their microservices architecture, databases, machine learning models to Azure.Gana was also entrepreneurial mindset and solved industry challenges of building Machine learning models using real-time streaming. He specializes in Cloud Infrastructure, Container Orchestration, Machine Learning, DevOps, High Performance Computing, Real Time Analytics and Event Processing with Open Source technologies. He lives in San Jose, CA. In his spare time he founded a social welfare trust for helping under-privelaged children's education and promotes talents - with the mindset of giving back to society.

Josh Triechel

Josh is a Sr.Manager working for Confluent dedicated to support multiple cloud alliances the core focus to develop the technical architecture and joint solutions. Josh has been supporting multiple industry verticals for decades by taking their legacy applications and migrating data, designing their microservices architecture, databases, data streaming to GCP, Azure and AWS. He specializes in Cloud Infrastructure, Container Orchestration, Machine Learning, DevOps, High Performance Computing, Real Time Analytics and Event Processing with Open Source technologies.