From Incidents to Insights: Evolving SRE from Reactive to Predictive

The next evolution of SRE isn’t about fixing incidents faster — it’s about preventing them. Shobhit shares how to use observability data, AI-assisted dashboards, and reliability signals to move from reactive firefighting to predictive resilience. Real-world examples from production environments, practical tools, and cultural shifts that make it work.

Observability Beyond Tools: Designing Reliable Systems in the Age of AI and Limited Everything

In 2025, every team has dashboards — yet most still miss what truly matters.
We’re living in the paradox of abundance: infinite metrics, limited meaning.
In this talk, Shobhit Verma — SRE Manager, filmmaker, and creator behind The Jugaad Guy — shares real stories of building observability and reliability frameworks with limited resources, tight budgets, and tighter deadlines.
He’ll unpack how clarity, culture, and curiosity consistently outperform expensive tools and AI automation.
Through lessons from banking, telecom, and retail systems, Shobhit reveals practical ways to design lightweight yet powerful observability strategies that scale — even when your stack, team, or time is limited.
Because in the end, reliability isn’t about what you monitor — it’s about how you think.

From Cloud Ops to Creator: Lessons from Systems that Scale

What do cloud systems and creative systems have in common? Both need scalability, resilience, and constant iteration. In this talk, Shobhit shares his 15-year journey building large-scale systems in banking and cloud, and how the same principles helped him grow as a creator. Expect stories, frameworks, and failures that reveal how reliability thinking can change the way you build — whether it’s for code or content.

Uptime, Heartbeats, and Hope: Observability in Real Life

In tech, we watch dashboards; in hospitals, we watch heartbeats. Both tell stories of systems fighting to stay alive.
In this talk, Shobhit Verma — SRE Manager, filmmaker, and creator behind The Jugaad Guy — shares what a real-life ICU experience taught him about observability, empathy, and awareness. Drawing parallels between cloud reliability and human resilience, he explores how metrics, alerts, and dashboards mean nothing without understanding their context.
From production outages to personal ones, Shobhit reveals why true reliability isn’t just about uptime — it’s about how gracefully we respond when things fail. Because whether it’s systems or souls, every heartbeat counts.

Observability Beyond Tools: Designing Reliable Systems in the Age of AI and Limited Everything

In 2025, every team has dashboards — yet most still miss what truly matters.
We’re living in the paradox of abundance: infinite metrics, limited meaning.
In this talk, Shobhit Verma — SRE Manager, filmmaker, and creator behind The Jugaad Guy — shares real stories of building observability and reliability frameworks with limited resources, tight budgets, and tighter deadlines.
He’ll unpack how clarity, culture, and curiosity consistently outperform expensive tools and AI automation.
Through lessons from banking, telecom, and retail systems, Shobhit reveals practical ways to design lightweight yet powerful observability strategies that scale — even when your stack, team, or time is limited.
Because in the end, reliability isn’t about what you monitor — it’s about how you think.

Lights, Camera, Outage! What Filmmaking Taught Me About Reliability and Observability

Ever noticed how directing a film and managing a production outage feel oddly similar? Both demand calm under chaos, clarity in communication, and the ability to turn panic into precision.

In this talk, I’ll share how my journey from SRE Lead to filmmaker shaped a new way of approaching reliability and observability. Over 15 years in IT, I’ve faced midnight incidents, silent failures, and dashboards that told half the truth. As a filmmaker, I’ve learned the art of narrative timing, emotional pacing, and framing chaos into a coherent story — lessons that now define how I handle outages.

We’ll explore real-world examples of production incidents that could have turned disasters, and how applying a director’s mindset — anticipation, empathy, and framing — turned them into success stories. From designing reliable systems to communicating post-mortems like scripts, this talk blends art and engineering into a practical, human playbook for modern developers.

Because when you treat incidents like scenes, observability like storytelling, and recovery like editing — your system uptime becomes more than just a number; it becomes a masterpiece.

From Cloud Reliability to Content Virality: Lessons from System that Scale

In this talk, Shobhit Verma — SRE Manager, filmmaker, and creator behind The Jugaad Guy — connects two worlds that rarely meet: cloud reliability and content virality.

Drawing from 14+ years in large-scale system reliability and 3 years in digital storytelling, he uncovers the shared principles that make both systems and stories thrive — consistency, observability, scalability, and recovery.

Through real-life examples, humor, and lessons learned from outages and viral moments alike, Shobhit shows how the same mindset that keeps servers stable can help creators, engineers, and leaders build trust and scale impact.

A session for those who want to engineer reliability — and create virality — in everything they do.

“You Can’t Improve What You Can’t Observe: Observability Lessons with Elastic”

At Barclays, our Elastic platform on AWS powered everything from fraud detection to peak sale-day surges with millions of credit card transactions. In this talk, I’ll share how we scaled clusters, improved observability, and built resilience at enterprise scale — and the unexpected lessons Elastic taught me beyond systems.

Cloud Around Us : How Amazon Netflix & Zomato run on the Cloud

Every time you watch Netflix, order food on Zomato, or shop on Amazon — you’re unknowingly using the power of the cloud. This session, “Cloud Around Us”, unravels how the cloud silently runs our daily digital lives — from streaming to shopping to payments.
Shobhit Verma, a technology leader with over 14 years of experience across telecom, banking, and retail, takes you behind the scenes of how companies scale effortlessly using cloud computing. With real-world stories, humor, and relatable examples, he simplifies how cloud infrastructure works at a massive scale. You’ll discover why Netflix never crashes, how Zomato delivers faster, and why Amazon makes more money from AWS than shopping. The talk blends technology, storytelling, and curiosity to make complex ideas easy to grasp. Shobhit also shares how students can start small and build meaningful projects using the cloud. This is not a technical lecture — it’s a journey through how innovation quietly shapes the world we live in. By the end of the session, you’ll realize that the cloud isn’t somewhere up there — it’s all around you, changing how we live, work, and dream.

Event at AWS STUDENT COMMUNITY DAY Pune at MIT ADT x MIT WPU