Understanding SAST Foundations with Open-Source Semgrep

Conf42 DevSecOps 2025

Static Application Security Testing (SAST) is a fundamental practice for securing the software development lifecycle, but its inner workings are often treated as a complex black box. This session peels back those layers, focusing on the core principles of static analysis using the fast, open-source Semgrep engine as our practical guide. We will explore how modern SAST moves beyond simple text searching by parsing code into Abstract Syntax Trees (ASTs) to understand its true structure and intent.

To Succeed in Platform Engineering, Build Infrastructure Knowledge Graphs

KubeCon | CloudNativeCon | India | 2025

Knowledge graphs can build relationships between entities from diverse infrastructure sources and make explicit what was previously implicit knowledge. It elevates the developer productivity and its neglected counterpart, operational excellence. This talk will discuss the importance of knowledge graphs and the strategies and mental models that will help in building knowledge graphs around the software infrastructure.

A Primer on Software Bill of Materials for DevSecOps

Conf42 DevSecOps 2024

This session on SBOMs covers the software supply chain threats and how SBOM can help.

API Testing in CI/CD with Mock Tools

DMCon 2024

This talk at DMCon 2024 covers the foundations of API testing, why Mock tools are required, and presents the Mockoon open-source mock testing tool

Practical SRE Workshop - Incident Management

SRE Summit Canada 2024

In this Workshop session on practical SRE, I cover the implementation of the incident management practice. The session will start with a theoretical walkthrough of the important aspects of Incident Management. It will be followed by the workshop, which has two parts: Setup Incident Management Process and Incident Resolutions with RCA

Building Resilient Systems: SRE Best Practices and Insights

Observability Talks - Podcasts by VuNet Systems

In this episode of Observability talk, we look at Observability from the perspective of building resilient systems through site reliability engineering. We explore the origin of the position and move into understanding the best practices, the divergent nature of reliability across organizations, and the experience of being in the trenches of problem-solving.

Distributed Tracing with Open Telemetry - Unraveling the Microservice Complexities

SRE Summit Canada 2024

In this session, I will introduce the fundamental concepts of OpenTelemetry and its ecosystem, emphasizing its role in simplifying the observability of microservices. The focus will then shift to distributed tracing, a crucial capability of OpenTelemetry that enables developers to track and visualize the journey of requests across a microservices architecture.

Building a Chaos Platform for Virtual Machines with OpenSource Tools

Chaos Carnival 2024

Chaos Carnival is a global virtual event with 40+ sessions on the latest cloud-native Chaos Engineering. In Chaos Carnival 2024, I and my Flipkart colleague Rohini presented how we built a chaos platform for virtual machines using open-source tools.

CICD - The SRE-DevOps Overlay

Conf42 SRE 2023

At the SRE Conference, 2023 organized by Conf42 I and Garima Bajpai discussed SRE and DevOps overlap at CICD.

Site reliability engineering and DevOps practice boundaries merge and are often intertwined in most organizations. We are here to highlight one of the most critical aspects of this overlap - continuous integration and continuous delivery- and how it is a prerequisite for many core SRE practices

Chaos Engineering - Controlled chaos for reliability

Large Scale Production Engineering - India Meetup Jul 2021

The LSPE-IN is a quarterly meetup of SRE, DevOps, and Infrastructure enthusiasts. In the July 2021 edition of the meetup, I talked about Chaos Engineering foundations followed by a quick demo

System Design Basics for Interviews

Skilldojo - Upskilling program by Skillenza.com - Dec 2020

This was a System Design 101 session organized by the Skillenza team to help new engineers understand the foundations of system design. I discuss the basic building blocks and approach of system design.