In this Keynote, Uma Mukkara, Head of Harness Resilience Testing and Co-Creator of LitmusChaos, explains why resilience must be built and tested throughout the Software Development Life Cycle, not treated as something to address after production issues occur.
He defines resilience as the ability of business services to withstand system failures, high load, and disasters, and shows how reduced resilience increases operational and business risk. The keynote introduces AI-powered resilience testing to help teams quantify risk, identify weaknesses early, and continuously measure, mitigate, and improve reliability across SDLC phases.
By combining chaos testing, load testing, and disaster recovery testing into a unified resilience strategy, Uma emphasizes that resilience is not optional. It must be proactively validated as a core practice of modern software delivery.
Uma Mukkara is Head of Resilience Testing at Harness and founder of ChaosNative. He is a recognized leader in chaos engineering, resilience testing, and cloud native reliability, with deep experience building products and teams across infrastructure and DevOps. Uma is passionate about helping organizations improve system reliability through modern resilience engineering practices.
