Mridula Chilakamarri is a Senior Product Manager specializing in enterprise infrastructure automation, cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes, and SaaS control planes. With more than 12 years of experience spanning infrastructure engineering and enterprise product management, she has built a career transforming complex operational challenges into scalable, customer-centric platform capabilities. She combines deep technical expertise with strategic product leadership to deliver solutions that improve deployment, lifecycle management, serviceability, observability, and operational resilience for enterprise platforms.
Currently at Dell Technologies, Mridula leads product initiatives for Dell Automation Platform, driving roadmap strategy for deployment, upgrades, lifecycle management, observability, and cloud operations. She has successfully delivered capabilities across Kubernetes-based microservices platforms, hybrid cloud environments, and enterprise automation solutions while collaborating with architects, engineering teams, customer success organizations, and executive stakeholders. Her experience also includes leading product initiatives for Dell NativeEdge, where she defined serviceability, diagnostics, health monitoring, and upgrade orchestration for large-scale edge computing platforms.
Before transitioning into product management, she spent several years designing, deploying, and supporting mission-critical enterprise storage and infrastructure platforms, giving her a unique perspective that bridges customer operations, engineering execution, and product strategy.
Mridula is passionate about sharing practical insights on product management, Kubernetes, cloud-native architecture, enterprise observability, platform engineering, AI-assisted product management, and infrastructure automation. Her presentations focus on real-world lessons, architectural decision-making, and product strategies that help organizations build resilient, secure, and highly available enterprise platforms while delivering measurable customer value.