Data streaming and Agentic AI

Agents are the new Apps. Future of Agentic AI is event driven.

The third wave of AI is here with Agentic AI, and it's clear that agents are the new apps! These agents demand fast, relevant, secured, real-time data to deliver maximum value.
But agents at scale are complex. They don't exist in isolation; multi-agent systems are becoming the norm, and multi-agent design patterns are rapidly adopted.

This means the future of Agentic AI is Event-Driven (to help with system complexity) and Data-Driven (to help with data needs).

An event-driven and data-driven Agentic AI architecture provides the scalability, low latency, loose coupling, and event persistence crucial for future success. This is where capabilities of a Data Streaming platform become a key enabler for the AI ecosystem. Streaming data platform provides vital connectivity between data sources, systems of record, agents, models, AI gateways, and consumers - in a streaming fashion. This creates a virtuous cycle that powers new applications and products.

My talk focuses on building an Agentic AI ecosystem on Data streaming platform.

Steel Thread approach to building large scale architectures

This talk describes the journey of building a brand new, platform-first, microservices architecture at Box. Building a new architectural stack presents a bunch of challenges with design choices, technology selection, and balancing simplicity with richness of feature offerings.
A 'steel thread' to designing architectures helps identify the critical components of the stack and then gradually roll out incremental features - all while the engine is still running. The challenges really snowball when you on-board live traffic with high scale, high throughput and low latency requirements.
The talk aims to share a structure on how to approach building large scale microservices architectures, challenges faced while on-boarding live traffic and finally lessons learnt while doing it.

Applied Software Engineering Management - At Scale

Managing multiple teams can stretch, stress and scare first time managers and established leaders. Books help cover the theory, but leave us with a gap in their application. This talk presents pragmatic leadership principles and simple tools to enable leaders manage at scale. By comparing the principles of engineering management, to those of managing a massively distributed eco-system, this talk provides a simple and jovial perspective on management.

The intent is to equip leaders with easily applicable and re-usable patterns to help build happy, functional teams.

target audience: managers and execs
first delivery: DeveloperWeekSF
time: 20-30 minutes
conferences: scale@box, DeveloperWeekSF, Agile games

Keep your judgement last - structure for your candid feedback better

We live in a time where candid, real feedback is encouraged. Its awesome! However our actions don’t always match our intent. We want to deliver constructive feedback to bring a positive change, but what we actually deliver might not help that cause. This talks presents a simple yet effective framework to help present your facts, state your requests and keep away from judgement. By dissecting a typical feedback into multiple parts and focusing on what is essential and helpful, this frameworks helps delivering feedback as a casual and effective conversation.

target audience: everyone
time: 20-30 minutes
first delivery: hackbright SF

Steel Thread approach to building large scale architectures

This talk describes the journey of building a brand new, platform-first, microservices architecture at Box. Building a new architectural stack presents a bunch of challenges with design choices, technology selection, and balancing simplicity with richness of feature offerings. A 'steel thread' to designing architectures helps identify the critical components of the stack and then gradually roll out incremental features - all while the engine is still running. The challenges really snowball when you on-board live traffic with high scale, high throughput and low latency requirements. The talk aims to share a structure on how to approach building large scale microservices architectures, challenges faced while on-boarding live traffic and finally lessons learnt while doing it.