Balaji Varadarajan
Employers on the program
- 2026DigitalOcean1 talk
- 2025Target1 talk
- 2024Applied Intuition1 talk
- 2023Robinhood1 talk
Upcoming appearances
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7th Annual MLOps World | GenAI Summit 2026 – · Austin, United States
- Little’s Law Meets the Roofline Model: A Decision Framework for Sizing Hosted LLM Inference speaker Program source ↗
No upcoming appearances are currently recorded.
The year around now
Talks in the past 12 months and announced talks ahead, one row per conference, January to December. Hover a mark for the talk.
Appearances by year
- Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon)
- MLOps World (Machine Learning in Production)
- Open Source Data Summit
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 17, 2026 | 7th Annual MLOps World | GenAI Summit 2026 | MLOps World (Machine Learning in Production) | speaker | Little’s Law Meets the Roofline Model: A Decision Framework for Sizing Hosted LLM Inference as DigitalOcean We will start with two diagnostic tools: Little’s Law which translates your QPS and target latency into the concurrency and batch size your system actually…Show lessWe will start with two diagnostic tools: Little’s Law which translates your QPS and target latency into the concurrency and batch size your system actually needs and the roofline model which tells you whether prefill (compute-bound) or decode (memory-bound) is your real constraint before you reach for a fix.. | |
| Oct 8, 2025 | 6th Annual MLOps World | GenAI Summit 2025 | MLOps World (Machine Learning in Production) | lightning | Building Sustainable GenAI Systems at Target as Target Enterprise In the age of GenAI, it’s tempting to chase rapid prototypes and flashy demos—but real business value lies in building sustainable, scalable systems that work…Show lessIn the age of GenAI, it’s tempting to chase rapid prototypes and flashy demos—but real business value lies in building sustainable, scalable systems that work beyond the lab. In this talk, we’ll cut through the hype and dive deep into the MLOps infrastructure required to support production-ready GenAI applications at scale. | |
| Oct 2, 2024 | Open Source Data Summit 2024 | Open Source Data Summit | speaker | Unleashing Hudi 1.0: Re-inventing the data lakehouse wheel we created as Applied Intuition | Video |
| Nov 15, 2023 | Open Source Data Summit 2023 | Open Source Data Summit | speaker | Scaling and governing Robinhood's data lakehouse as Robinhood | Video |
| Sep 29, 2020 | ApacheCon @Home 2020 | Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon) | speaker | Next Gen Data Lakes using Apache Hudi | Video |
| Sep 9, 2019 | ApacheCon North America 2019 | Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon) | speaker | Apache Hudi (Incubating) : the past, present and future of efficient data lake architectures |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vinoth Chandar | 3 | 1 | 2024 |
| Patrick McFadin | 3 | — | 2023 |
| Joe Reis | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Juan Sequeda | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Kshetrajna Raghavan | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Kumaran Ponnambalam | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Niels Bantilan | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Rajiv Shah | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Siddharth Jain | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Yegor Denisov-Blanch | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Ashvin Agrawal | 2 | — | 2024 |
| Bhavani Sudha Saktheeswaran | 2 | — | 2024 |
| Manfred Moser | 2 | — | 2024 |
| Shirshanka Das | 2 | — | 2024 |
| Jordan West | 2 | — | 2023 |
Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.