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Sat Agrawal

Sat Agrawal

Senior Principal Software Engineer @ Discover Financial Services

Jacksonville, Florida, United States

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Sat Agrawal has an unvarnished commitment to delivering quality results. An avid learner, Sat holds a bachelor’s in computer science from Penn State and remains actively engaged in a wide range of learning resources. He is a Certified Chaos Engineering professional and practitioner, with additional certifications that include CKA, CKAD, and TOGAF. Sat's current focus in service mesh technologies exemplifies his commitment to stay at the forefront of cloud-native technologies.

At Discover Financial Services, Sat combines his diverse knowledge of concepts, practices, and processes with a strong advocacy for automation and efficiency. Tapping native strengths in analytical and communication skills, he enters mentoring and partnering relationships with business users, architects, and stakeholders across the enterprise to help product teams streamline their end-to-end product delivery cycles. A recognized top-level contributor himself, Sat influences engineers to embrace the agile practices that transform the way they work, leading ultimately to the delivery of dynamic, impactful solutions that align with organizational goals.

Sat personalizes his aptitude for leadership through his attendance and speaking at conferences and local meetups and by conducting hands-on proofs-of-concept. Participating in LinkedIn and other industry-leading blogs, he engages in a variety of topics that include DevOps, DevSecOps, and SREs.

Area of Expertise

  • Finance & Banking
  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • DevOps & Automation
  • DevOps Transformation
  • DevSecOps
  • Cloud & DevOps
  • DevOps Skills
  • DevOpsCulture
  • DevOps Journey
  • DevOps Agile Methodology & Culture
  • Migrating to devops
  • FinDevOps
  • DevOps Enterprises
  • Dojos
  • Kubernetes
  • Cloud Native & Kubernetes
  • kubernetes autoscaling
  • Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS)

Optimizing Microservices: Creating Efficient OCI-Compliant Containers with Podman

Learn how to create and optimize OCI-compliant container images for microservices using Podman and other open-source tools. This session will highlight the benefits of OCI compliance for enhanced container portability and runtime flexibility. We will cover best practices for building efficient container images, including the use of minimal base images and strategic layer structuring to improve startup times. Through a practical books management microservice example, we will demonstrate benchmarking techniques to compare the performance of optimized versus non-optimized images. Join us to refine your containerization approach, ensuring your microservices are lightweight, efficient, and ready for any runtime environment.

Which technical practices naturally foster a culture of trust and accountability?

Learn about how technical transformation and dedication to excellent DevOps practices precede any organizational revolution when looking to change with purpose. Although cultural pillars of high performing teams like trust and accountability are widely sought after, certain DevOps practices help lead to these tendencies more naturally, enabling leadership to quickly see the fruits of their support and engineers to work autonomously, avoid toil and be able to rely on each other to achieve the best outcomes.

The art of getting to less - Embracing the agile principle of simplicity

Come hear about applying one of the trickiest Agile principles: "Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not done--is essential"! This agile principle is frequently overlooked when organizations and teams create or improve products. Why do humans love to add in order to improve? This gets in the way of faster, smoother and better delivery. Hear about the psychology behind why we do this. Learn how organizations like Discover use dojos and academies to helps teams improve.

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 Upcoming

November 2024 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Sat Agrawal

Senior Principal Software Engineer @ Discover Financial Services

Jacksonville, Florida, United States

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