Nikhil Kathole

Nikhil Kathole

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Pune, India

Actions

Nikhil is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, working on Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI), focused on building Feature Store and contributing to Feast (https://feast.dev/) upstream project across Feature Server performance improvements, Registry REST API server, Kubernetes Scaling/HA operations, Observability, OpenLineage and GenAI/RAG integrations. He is enthusiastic about Open Source Technologies and previously he contributed to the foreman and fedora communities.

Area of Expertise

  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • AI/ML + Data Processing
  • Kubernetes
  • AI/ML Engineering
  • Feature Stores

Feast as a Cloud Native Data System: Bridging Batch Processing and Online Serving on Kubernetes

Modern AI and GenAI platforms running on Kubernetes depend on derived data that must be processed in batch and served with low latency. Teams often stitch together data processing engines, object stores, databases, and caching layers, creating operational complexity and inconsistent data access patterns.

This session presents Feast as a cloud native data system that bridges batch processing and online serving on Kubernetes. We explore how Feast integrates with Kubernetes-native data engines such as Spark and Ray, reuses existing data lakes and warehouses as offline stores, and materializes data into online stores optimized for real-time access.

Using Open Data Hub and the Feast Operator, the talk demonstrates a Kubernetes-native architecture for managing data pipelines. Attendees will learn practical design patterns and operational trade-offs for building scalable, cloud native data platforms that support ML and RAG workloads without introducing new data silos.

Nikhil Kathole

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Pune, India

Actions

Please note that Sessionize is not responsible for the accuracy or validity of the data provided by speakers. If you suspect this profile to be fake or spam, please let us know.

Jump to top