Vara Bonthu
Employers on the program
- 2023–2026Amazon Web Services4 talks
- 2022Containers, AWS1 talk
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
- AWS re:Invent
- Data on Kubernetes Day (DoK Day)
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 30, 2026 | AWS re:Invent 2026 | AWS re:Invent | chalk talk | Breaking 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 lessBatch 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, 2026 | AWS re:Invent 2026 | AWS re:Invent | breakout | The 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 lessKubernetes 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, 2025 | AWS re:Invent 2025 | AWS re:Invent | chalk talk | Shuffle, 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 lessRunning 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, 2023 | AWS re:Invent 2023 | AWS re:Invent | breakout | Data processing at massive scale on Amazon EKSOrganizations use their data to make better decisions and build innovative experiences for their customers. They are also looking for modern methods of…Show lessOrganizations 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, 2023 | AWS re:Invent 2023 | AWS re:Invent | chalk talk | Optimize data and analytics workloads on Amazon EKSOrganizations are adopting Kubernetes to run their workloads for flexibility, scale, and cost efficiency. Deploying production-grade workloads can be simplified…Show lessOrganizations 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, 2023 | Data on Kubernetes Day North America 2023 | Data on Kubernetes Day (DoK Day) | speaker | Dynamic 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 lessAre 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, 2022 | AWS re:Invent 2022 | AWS re:Invent | builders session | Bootstrapping “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 lessIn 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
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apoorva Kulkarni | 4 | 1 | 2026 |
| Kinnar Sen | 4 | 1 | 2026 |
| Mike Stefaniak | 4 | 1 | 2026 |
| Tsahi Duek | 4 | 1 | 2026 |
| Aaron Sempf | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Abbas Mooraj | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Abhishek Srivastav | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Adam Hill | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Aditya Pendyala | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Aditya Samant | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Adnan Bilwani | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Ahuva Hazan-Fuchs | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Alex Livingstone | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Alexander Dragunov | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Ali Alemi | 4 | — | 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.