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Speakers

Vara Bonthu

Employers on the program

  1. 2023–2026Amazon Web Services4 talks
  2. 2022Containers, AWS1 talk
Events5
Conferences2
Talks7
Years active2022–2026
Miles between events3,0395 in-person events · 1 country

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.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAWS re:InventAWS re:Invent
Held in the past 12 months Next 12 months Today, Nov 9, 2026

Appearances by year

201920202021202220232024202520262027
  • AWS re:Invent
  • Data on Kubernetes Day (DoK Day)

Talks

DateEventConferenceRoleTitleLinks
Nov 30, 2026AWS re:Invent 2026AWS re:Inventchalk talkBreaking down batch inference with Ray Data on Amazon EKS
as Amazon Web Services
Batch inference is more than running a model over a large dataset. In this interactive chalk talk, we build an end-to-end batch inference architecture on Amazon…Show less

Batch inference is more than running a model over a large dataset. In this interactive chalk talk, we build an end-to-end batch inference architecture on Amazon EKS one component at a time.

Nov 30, 2026AWS re:Invent 2026AWS re:InventbreakoutThe future of Kubernetes on AWS
as Amazon Web Services
Kubernetes has become a standard for organizations looking to modernize their application portfolios. AWS developed Amazon EKS to make Kubernetes more…Show less

Kubernetes has become a standard for organizations looking to modernize their application portfolios. AWS developed Amazon EKS to make Kubernetes more accessible to organizations of all sizes, helping them focus on what matters most for their businesses.

Dec 1, 2025AWS re:Invent 2025AWS re:Inventchalk talkShuffle, Scale, Succeed: Optimizing Spark Performance on Amazon EKS
as Amazon Web Services
Running Apache Spark on Amazon EKS delivers scalability, but poor defaults can drive up costs and slow pipelines. This ChalkTalk highlights the top Spark…Show less

Running Apache Spark on Amazon EKS delivers scalability, but poor defaults can drive up costs and slow pipelines. This ChalkTalk highlights the top Spark performance challenges and production-proven fixes.

Nov 27, 2023AWS re:Invent 2023AWS re:InventbreakoutData processing at massive scale on Amazon EKS
Organizations use their data to make better decisions and build innovative experiences for their customers. They are also looking for modern methods of…Show less

Organizations use their data to make better decisions and build innovative experiences for their customers. They are also looking for modern methods of processing large volumes of data to gain greater insight.

Video
Nov 27, 2023AWS re:Invent 2023AWS re:Inventchalk talkOptimize data and analytics workloads on Amazon EKS
Organizations are adopting Kubernetes to run their workloads for flexibility, scale, and cost efficiency. Deploying production-grade workloads can be simplified…Show less

Organizations are adopting Kubernetes to run their workloads for flexibility, scale, and cost efficiency. Deploying production-grade workloads can be simplified through the use of operator patterns.

Nov 6, 2023Data on Kubernetes Day North America 2023Data on Kubernetes Day (DoK Day)speakerDynamic Large Scale Spark on Kubernetes: Empowering the Community with Argo Workflows and Argo Events
as AWS
Are you eager to build and manage large-scale Spark clusters on Kubernetes for powerful data processing? Whether you are starting from scratch or considering…Show less

Are you eager to build and manage large-scale Spark clusters on Kubernetes for powerful data processing? Whether you are starting from scratch or considering migrating Spark workloads from existing Hadoop clusters to Kubernetes, the challenges of configuring storage, compute, networking, and...

Nov 28, 2022AWS re:Invent 2022AWS re:Inventbuilders sessionBootstrapping “batteries-included” Amazon EKS clusters
as Containers, AWS
In this builders’ session, learn about using Amazon EKS Blueprints for Terraform to configure and deploy “batteries-included” Amazon EKS clusters. Dive deep…Show less

In this builders’ session, learn about using Amazon EKS Blueprints for Terraform to configure and deploy “batteries-included” Amazon EKS clusters. Dive deep into EKS Blueprints code and learn to deploy security-compliant EKS clusters with managed node groups and AWS Fargate profiles.

Slides

Frequent co-speakers

SpeakerShared eventsShared talksLast together
Apoorva Kulkarni412026
Kinnar Sen412026
Mike Stefaniak412026
Tsahi Duek412026
Aaron Sempf4—2026
Abbas Mooraj4—2026
Abhishek Srivastav4—2026
Adam Hill4—2026
Aditya Pendyala4—2026
Aditya Samant4—2026
Adnan Bilwani4—2026
Ahuva Hazan-Fuchs4—2026
Alex Livingstone4—2026
Alexander Dragunov4—2026
Ali Alemi4—2026

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.