Pratik Mahalle
DevRel
Pune, India
Actions
Hey, I am Pratik, currently working as DevRel. I am also an AWS Community Builder and I love spending my time in community.
Area of Expertise
Topics
The Dark Side of DevRel: Moving Beyond Evangelism and Burnout
Developer Relations (DevRel) is often glamorized as a role filled with conference talks, swag drops, and constant travel. But beneath the surface lies a different story — one of burnout, blurred boundaries, and pressure to constantly prove value.
In this honest and eye-opening session, Pratik Mahalle unpacks the “dark side” of DevRel — the emotional and professional challenges that are rarely talked about publicly. From unrealistic expectations and community fatigue to the lack of career paths and internal misunderstanding, this session offers a behind-the-scenes look at what it's really like to work in DevRel.
Whether you’re an aspiring advocate, currently in DevRel, or managing someone in this role, this talk will help you better understand the human side of advocacy — and how we can evolve beyond the stereotype to build healthier, more sustainable DevRel teams
MLOps Meets DevOps: Managing ML & App Workflows at Scale on Google Cloud
This session shows how to manage both ML and app workflows using Google Cloud tools like Vertex AI, Cloud Build, Artifact Registry, and GKE. You'll see how to automate model training, testing, and deployment alongside application code in a single, unified DevOps pipeline. We'll walk through practical challenges like handling dependencies, model versioning, and rollbacks—plus how to monitor it all. Real examples, no fluff—just what works when running ML and DevOps together in production.
Docs, Demos, and Burnout: What They Don’t Tell You About DevRel
DevRel looks glamorous—conferences, content, and community wins. But behind every tweet and tutorial lies a demanding reality of emotional labor, burnout, and often invisible work. In this talk, I’ll unpack the lesser-known challenges of developer relations, especially in open source communities. From managing community expectations to balancing advocacy and engineering, I’ll share lessons learned, mistakes made, and strategies for sustainable impact. This session is for anyone who’s ever wondered what it really takes to build thriving, inclusive tech communities—from Discord mods to documentation warriors. Let’s go beyond the surface and talk about what DevRel really demands.
Community-Centric gRPC: Building Learning Ecosystems Around Complex Tech
gRPC can be complex—high performance, yes, but also intimidating for newcomers. In this talk, I explore how we can make gRPC more accessible and inclusive by building community-driven learning ecosystems. Drawing from real-world community contributions, DevRel experiences, and open-source education efforts, I'll share strategies for documentation, live demos, mentorship, and platform advocacy that empower more developers to adopt and understand gRPC. Whether you’re a project maintainer, contributor, or passionate about developer experience, this session will give you practical insights into growing a healthy, scalable, and welcoming ecosystem around complex cloud-native tech like gRPC.
Chaos Engineering for Security: Breaking Systems to Strengthen Defenses
We often hear about chaos engineering in the context of reliability, but what if we applied that same philosophy to security? In this session, I’ll explore the emerging field of Security Chaos Engineering. In this innovative practice, we intentionally inject failures and simulate attacks to uncover hidden security weaknesses before adversaries do.
Using open source tools like ChaosMesh, LitmusChaos, and KubeArmor, I'll demonstrate how teams can proactively test assumptions about their security posture. From simulating pod compromise in Kubernetes to testing firewall rule effectiveness under duress, the session will walk through real-world scenarios where controlled chaos leads to deeper system hardening.
Rather than reacting to incidents, what if we could break things on purpose—and make our systems safer.
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