devopsdays · mattstratton · Sep 17, 2026 · Sep 15, 2026 · Sep 16, 2026 · Sep 16, 2026
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+Title = "Ajay Chankramath"
+Twitter = ""
+linkedin = "http://linkedin.com/in/chankramath"
+image = "ajay-chankramath.png"
+type = "speaker"
+linktitle = ""
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+Ajay Chankramath is the Founder and CEO of Platformetrics, a platform engineering advisory firm based in Colorado. He leads advisory, training, and certification programs across communities such as PlatformEngineering.org that help enterprise teams design, build, and scale developer platforms that deliver measurable business outcomes, bringing together his nearly 4 decades of experience in software architecture and development.
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+Ajay is the author of 3 highly popular Platform Engineering books: The Platform Engineer's Handbook, co-author of Effective Platform Engineering, and Domain-Driven Platform Engineering. His current work focuses on the intersection of platform engineering and agentic AI: how Internal Developer Platforms evolve into Agentic Platforms, and what that means for golden paths, governance, and the teams that build them.
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-Title = "Anish Purthuraya"
+Title = "Anish Puthuraya"
 Twitter = ""
-linkedin = ""
-image = ""
+linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/anish-puthuraya/"
+image = "anish-puthuraya.png"
 type = "speaker"
 linktitle = ""
 
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+Anish Puthuraya leads data engineering at Pyramid Global Hospitality - a major US hospitality management company, where he owns enterprise data architecture across a 150+ property portfolio.
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+His work covers production ML forecasting on Microsoft Fabric - booking-curve demand models, blended statistical and ML forecasts, and full nightly P&L assembly, along with governed lakehouse platforms and human-in-the-loop LLM systems for finance. He has led cloud analytics work at PwC and enterprise Power Platform delivery at Wipro.
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+He holds an M.S. in Business Analytics from Boston University Questrom and a B.Tech. from IIT Bombay.
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+Title = "Ashley Gross"
+Twitter = ""
+linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/theashleygross/"
+image = "ashley-gross.png"
+type = "speaker"
+linktitle = ""
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+Ashley Gross is the founder of The Alliance, an enterprise AI advisory and implementation firm, and the author of The AI Workweek, out with Wiley this month. She has spent six years building AI into the workflows of large organizations and has trained more than 2,500 professionals on the practical end of it. She works from the Research Triangle in North Carolina.
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 Title = "Christopher Tineo"
 Twitter = ""
-linkedin = ""
-image = ""
+linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-tineo"
+image = "christopher-tineo.png"
 type = "speaker"
 linktitle = ""
 
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+Hi, I'm Chris, and I'm currently working as an SRE and an open-source and cloud-native advocate in the defense industry.
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+I am a CNCF Ambassador and contribute to its community and chapters in several ways. I am involved with the Kubernetes project, specifically in its contributor communications sub-project, and I represent the Cloud Native NYC and Santo Domingo chapters of the CNCF. I am also an organizer for the Kubernetes Community Days in NYC.
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+I enjoy helping others advance their careers in the tech industry. I strongly believe that a few words of encouragement can significantly impact someone's life, just as they did for me when I began my career.
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 Title = "Rahul Sharma"
 Twitter = ""
 linkedin = ""
-image = ""
+image = "rahul-sharma.png"
 type = "speaker"
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+Rahul Sharma is a senior manager of software engineering at Comcast, where he leads SRE and AI/ML engineering. He works on distributed systems, cloud-native architecture, and the ML models and AI agents his teams run in production. He writes beyond5nines.com — field notes on real production incidents, from investigation to fix.
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 Title = "Tyler Auerbeck"
 Twitter = ""
-linkedin = ""
-image = ""
+linkedin = "https://linkedin.com/in/tylerauerbeck"
+image = "tyler-auerbeck.png"
 type = "speaker"
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+Tyler Auerbeck is a Staff Software Engineer at Stack AV focusing on bringing resilience and reliability to self-driving infrastructure. In his free time, he focuses on mangling software to work together in new and often times unexpected ways.
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 </div>
 
 
-<div class = "row">
+<!-- <div class = "row">
   <div class = "col-md-2">
     <strong>Propose</strong>
   </div>
   <div class = "col-md-8">
     {{< event_link page="propose" text="Propose a talk!" >}}
   </div>
-</div>
+</div> -->
 
 <!-- <div class = "row">
   <div class = "col-md-2">

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ event_social_youtube: "DevOpsDaysPHL" # Change this to the youtube channel handl
 social_shares: # ["email", "twitter", "facebook", "linkedin"]
 
 nav_elements: # List of pages you want to show up in the navigation of your page.
-  - name: propose
+  # - name: propose
   - name: location
   - name: registration
   - name: program
@@ -94,6 +94,10 @@ sponsors:
     level: community
   - id: kubeevents
     level: community
+  - id: technically-philadelphia
+    level: media
+  - id: chariot-solutions
+    level: custom
 
  #  - id: samplesponsorname
  #   level: gold
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     max: 0 # This is the same as omitting the max limit.
   - id: community
     label: Community
+  - id: media
+    label: Media
+  - id: custom
+    label: Custom
+
 program:
   - title: "Registration, Breakfast, Sponsor Tables Open"
     type: custom

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+name: "Chariot Solutions"
+url: "https://chariotsolutions.com/"
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		name: "Chariot Solutions"
		url: "https://chariotsolutions.com/"