A comprehensive look at the reliability landscape from four critical vantage points: the Fortune enterprise, the platform builder, the service integrator, and the academic trainer. This conversation dives into the human element of SRE—how to foster a culture of reliability, bridge the gap between building cutting-edge infrastructure at a massive scale, and nurture the mindset required to sustain it.
Vinita Jacob is a senior technology leader with more than two decades of experience leading cloud engineering, site reliability engineering, infrastructure operations, and digital transformation initiatives. Currently Senior Director of Cloud Engineering at Optum, she has built and scaled high-performing engineering organizations, with deep expertise in cloud adoption, DevOps, AIOps, and enterprise operations. Prior to Optum, she spent over 20 years at Verizon leading large-scale SRE and cloud transformation programs.
Vishnupriya Raghavan is Senior Vice President and Business Head of Enterprise IT Business at NIIT StackRoute. With a career spanning enterprise education, consulting, research, and workforce transformation, she specializes in helping organizations build future-ready talent and technology capabilities. She combines leadership experience across industry and academia with expertise in enterprise transformation, strategic leadership, and AI-enabled workforce development, and is also a published researcher in artificial intelligence and emerging technologies.
Jyothsna Kuchimanchi is a global technology executive with nearly three decades of experience driving enterprise transformation, platform engineering, digital innovation, and AI adoption. As Senior Director at UnitedHealth Group, she leads large-scale platform modernization and AI-driven initiatives across healthcare. Her career spans leadership roles across Asia Pacific, Europe, and the United States, with a strong focus on building global engineering organizations, customer experience transformation, data strategy, and technology-led business growth.
Siva Bagavathi is a seasoned, forward-looking professional with around two decades of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Solution architecting, Performance engineering, Capacity planning, Chaos Engineering, product development, automation and setup SRE for large enterprise applications in various business domains. Consistently recognized as competent individual, skilled at coordinating with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment to steer timely completion of project with budgetary constraints.
Nagarjun Malladi is an AI and technology leader with more than 28 years of experience delivering large-scale enterprise solutions and driving innovation across global IT services organizations. At Tech Mahindra, he leads AI capability development and has held senior delivery leadership roles overseeing complex programs across multiple industries. A strong advocate for industry-academia collaboration, he is also a keynote speaker and board member focused on advancing technology talent, AI adoption, and enterprise transformation.
