In the gaming industry, every millisecond matters. When managing a real-time, high-traffic platform like PokerBaazi (India's biggest online poker platform), where millions of users are simultaneously playing, the need for Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) becomes critical. Achieving seamless performance, scalability, and reliability under heavy loads requires a strong blend of infrastructure, processes, and a dedicated SRE mindset.

In this session, we’ll explore how SRE practices play a key role in ensuring consistent uptime and performance for gaming platforms with massive concurrent user traffic. I will take you through:

• The unique challenges of maintaining a highly available platform that handles millions of real-time requests daily.
• The use of Kubernetes, microservices, and cloud-native architectures to manage scale while maintaining reliability.
• How we leverage observability, alerting, and automated incident response to meet stringent SLAs in the gaming industry.
• The role of Chaos Engineering in proactively testing platform stability and avoiding disruptions during peak times.
• Scaling infrastructure seamlessly during high-demand gaming events (like online tournaments and special events) while ensuring low latency.

This session is ideal for SREs, DevOps engineers, and platform architects working in high-traffic environments, especially in the gaming and real-time tech space. You’ll walk away with practical strategies and insights on how to balance performance, scalability, and resilience while handling millions of requests in real time.

Siddharth Vijay is an Expert Panel Speaker at various DevOps, Cloud & CyberSecurity conferences held in India & Abroad - details on Linkedin profile.

Highly experienced and results-driven AVP Engineering with a proven track record of delivering innovative solutions and driving technology excellence. With a strong background in technology, Mr. Vijay brings 12 years of experience in leading high-performing engineering teams and delivering successful projects.

Leading the DevOps, Cloud, and DevSecOps team at Baazi Games for the past four years which caters to 1 million+ annual users. Previously led DevOps teams at companies such as Genpact and Fidelity. Implementing top-tier DevOps practices and fostering a culture of excellence throughout my career, he has had the privilege of mentoring hundreds of peers, leveraging my skills and expertise.

Throughout his career, Mr. Vijay have demonstrated a deep understanding of engineering principles and a passion for leveraging cutting-edge technologies to solve complex problems. His expertise spans across Cloud, DevOps, Database, Platform Engineering (Backend), QA & Automation, Project Management and Delivery enabling him to drive strategic initiatives, optimize processes, and deliver scalable and reliable solutions with his niche skills and forte being DevOps.

As an AVP Engineering, he has a track record of building and managing high-performing DevOps teams, fostering a culture of innovation, and nurturing talent.