Virtual Event | OCTOBER 22 + 23, 2025
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Paweł Obrępalski is a Staff Engineer at ShareChat, passionate about performance and simplicity.
Saurabh Jaluka is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix.
Ashutosh Agrawal is a Staff Software Engineer for Google Gemini.
Tulika Bhatt is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix, specializing in Personalization Data Engineering. With nearly a decade of experience spanning industries such as digital media, fintech, and telecommunications, Tulika has a proven track record of leveraging data to drive impactful user experiences. At Netflix, Tulika manages datasets that power content recommendations for over 250 million plus subscribers, processing trillions of data points annually. Previously, she held key roles at BlackRock, developing cloud-native financial applications and optimizing machine learning workflows, and at Verizon, where she enhanced self-service adoption through innovative web solutions. An alumna of Columbia University (M.S. in Computer Science), Tulika is passionate about sharing knowledge through speaking engagements, mentoring aspiring engineers, and contributing to industry conversations on data-driven innovation.
Neha Pawar is a Founding Engineer, and Head of Data Infra at StarTree (https://www.startree.ai/), which aims to democratize data for all users by providing real-time, user-facing analytics. Prior to this, she was part of LinkedIn's Data Analytics Infrastructure org for 5 years, working on Apache Pinot & ThirdEye. She is passionate about big data technologies and real-time analytics databases. Neha is an Apache Pinot PMC and Committer. She has made numerous impactful contributions to Apache Pinot, with a focus on realtime streaming engine and ingestion. At StarTree, she led initiatives such as Tiered Storage and StarTree Serverless. She actively fosters the growing Apache Pinot and StarTree community & loves to evangelize Pinot by making entertaining video tutorials & illustrations, writing blogs and delivering tech talks. When not sipping Pinot, you can find Neha jamming with her husband, painting or hiking with her dogs.
Jake Hillion is a Software Engineer at Meta. Working on scheduling with sched_ext. Experience deploying novel userspace schedulers to production and building the features needed to outperform existing kernel schedulers, debugging application performance along the way. Previous experience working on debuggers and memory profiling, with a focus on writing high performance memory efficient C++.
Rachel Stephens is a Research Director with RedMonk and has been with the firm since 2016. Rachel comes to RedMonk with a wealth of financial experience, and she applies this quantitative lens to her analysis. Her focus is broad (as it is for all of the RedMonk analysts), but she devotes a lot of time to emerging growth technologies. Before joining RedMonk, Rachel worked as a database administrator and financial analyst. Rachel holds an MBA with a Business Intelligence certification from Colorado State University and a BA in Finance from the University of Colorado. She is currently based in Denver, Colorado.
Avi Kivity, CTO of ScyllaDB, is known mostly for starting the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) project, the hypervisor underlying many production clouds. He has worked for Qumranet and Red Hat as KVM maintainer until December 2012. Avi is now CTO of ScyllaDB, a company that seeks to bring the same kind of innovation to the public cloud space.
Pekka Enberg is the Founder & CTO at Turso.
Dor Laor is the CEO of ScyllaDB. Previously, Dor was part of the founding team of the KVM hypervisor under Qumranet that was acquired by Red Hat. At Red Hat Dor was managing the KVM and Xen development for several years. Dor holds an MSc from the Technion and a Phd in snowboarding.
Cristian Velazquez is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer on the Maps Production Engineering team at Uber. He works on multiple efficiency initiatives across multiple organizations. He leads the GC tuning efforts across the company.
Jens Axboe is a Software Engineer at Meta. Axboe is the current Linux kernel maintainer of the block layer and other block devices, along with contributing the CFQ I/O scheduler, Noop scheduler, Deadline scheduler, io_uring, and the splice I/O architecture. Jens is also the author of the blktrace utility and kernel parts, which provides a way to trace every block I/O activity in the Linux kernel. blktrace exists in 2.6.17 and later Linux kernels.
Glauber is a veteran low-level engineer with a strong focus on performance and resource management. He has worked with a variety of subsystems in the Linux Kernel, most notably the KVM Hypervisor and the cgroups resource management infrastructure that created the foundations of the containers revolution. Glauber had spent many years with ScyllaDB working with both business and technical issues, specializing in storage I/O and automated resource controlling. Currently he is the Founder & CEO of Turso, where he authored the Glommio asynchronous framework for Rust.
Felipe Cardeneti Mendes is a Technical Director at ScyllaDB.
Kusha Maharshi is a Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg, where she passionately works on distributed tracing and observability infrastructure. An avid public speaker, she loves breaking down complex technical challenges with clarity – and a dose of humor. Kusha holds a degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, where she specialized in computer systems. Her favorite programming language? Assembly.
Nick Van Wiggeren is the CTO at PlanetScale, where he takes the details seriously while building the fastest and most reliable cloud database. Previously, he worked all over the GitHub product, and in many other developer-facing products that you know and (hopefully) love.
Dominik Tornow is CEO and founder of Resonate HQ, Inc. Dominik focuses on correctness, reliability, and scalability of distributed systems. He is the author of Thinking in Distributed Systems.
Johannes Bechberger is a Software Engineer at SAP.
John Thomson is a Deep Learning Algorithms Engineer at NVIDIA.
Aditya is a co-founder at Blacksmith. Blacksmith is a high-performance cloud platform with a hardware-software stack purpose-built for CI. Prior to Blacksmith, Aditya was an early engineer at Cockroach Labs and worked on developing disaster recovery systems for CockroachDB.
Born in Indonesia, live in Jakarta, have been working as an engineer for more than 7 years. I love technical things, solve problems, and trying something new and challenging.
Kate Goldenring is a senior software engineer at Fermyon and open source developer in the WebAssembly, Kubernetes, and edge spaces, maintaining CNCF projects Akri, Spin and SpinKube. She serves as co-chair of the CNCF IoT Edge Working Group and the Bytecode Alliance Documentation SIG. Away from the desk, Kate is an avid mountaineer, teaching climbing courses for her local outdoors club.
Manya is a second-year computer science PhD student at MIT. She is interested in designing extensible and productive languages (and tools!) for heterogeneous systems.
From robots, microcontrollers, and display drivers to distributed systems, I've done a lot of different things where tail latency is critical. There's always something new to learn when you're optimizing to perfection.
Rajesh Kumar Pandey is a Principal Engineer at AWS, designing resilient, large-scale serverless architectures for event-driven and AI-powered workloads. With over a decade of experience in distributed systems and cloud performance engineering, he focuses on minimizing tail latencies, scaling async event pipelines, and improving cost-performance tradeoffs in production systems. Rajesh shares practical insights in his newsletter, Cold Starts, and has authored several publications on serverless reliability and performance tuning.
Tanel Poder is a long-time computer performance geek, working on various complex systems like (Oracle) database clusters, modern Big Data & cloud technologies and anything running on Linux/Unix. He has built and fixed enterprise data systems all around the world, this has also resulted in building a few small-but-very-fun tech companies around better tools and methods. He has two patents in the data virtualization space and has realized that this is enough. In addition to his R&D, he occasionally delivers consulting, advisory and training to companies and talks about performance & troubleshooting both at public conferences and his video channels available at his website.
Experienced software developer and architect with a diverse background across multiple domains, including fintech, enterprise systems management, virtualization, investment banking, and databases. I have had the privilege of working at renowned companies such as Goldman Sachs, Dell-EMC, and PayPal. I have a passion for problem-solving and thrive in designing robust, distributed, and scalable enterprise solutions that meet the complex needs of modern businesses. My expertise lies in crafting innovative systems that optimize performance, reliability, and efficiency, making a significant impact on both the technical and business aspects of the organizations I work with.
Duarte Nunes is a software engineer at Datadog, focused on building fast and reliable core systems. His background lies at the intersection between distributed systems and single-machine performance.
As a 5G Senior Solutions Engineer at ARM, I specialize in orchestrating the stack bring-up process and conducting in-depth code analysis to optimize system performance. My focus involves integrating 5G components, such as RAN and Core Network, with precise configurations to ensure seamless operation. I delve into critical code components, analyzing their impact on system and CPU performance to identify areas for enhancement. Additionally, I play an active role in developing software plugins and tools for studying 5G performance across different generations of ARM processors. My goal is to continually improve code execution efficiency and overall system performance. Prior to this, I was a Graduate thesis student at Texas A&M University with majors in Computer Engineering, where I was actively involved in the research of 5G Networks using Reinforcement Learning associated with the LENS Laboratory.
Jubin Abhishek Soni is a Senior Software Engineer at Yahoo, where he leads large-scale cloud migration efforts and the development of real-time data platforms. With over 13 years of experience in full-stack development, AI-powered systems, and cloud-native architectures, he has held key engineering roles at companies including Nextdoor, Chartmetric, and S&P Global. Jubin is an active member of professional communities such as IEEE, the AI Guild, and IAENG. He also serves as a judge for the Globee Awards, evaluating global innovations in AI, technology, and disruption, and has published research in applied AI and cloud infrastructure. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from NYU, along with multiple certifications in cloud and AI technologies. Jubin is passionate about building scalable, AI-driven systems, designing robust big data pipelines, and mentoring the next generation of technologists.
Andrii has a total of 17 years of software engineering experience and has been very passionate about Go for the past 6 years. Over the past 5 years at Delivery Hero, he has adeptly harnessed Golang, excelling in constructing high-load applications, leveraging Golang's concurrency capabilities to engineer scalable solutions that optimise performance and handle substantial data processing tasks.
Aric serves as the Chief Technologist on Red Hat's Global FSI team, where he helps clients meet their strategic priorities through the use of open source technology. Prior to joining Red Hat, he led large, digital transformation projects at Goldman Sachs’ Investment Management Division and was co-founder/CTO of several FinTechs in equity and FX trading.
Anusha Reddy Guntakandla is a software engineer with 10+ years of experience in full-stack development, system architecture, and application management. Currently, she is a Software Engineer III at Wayfair LLC in Boston, MA, leading projects on system decoupling, real-time task optimization, and UI enhancement. Anusha has expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, GraphQL, Kafka, Kubernetes, and Aerospike. She has significantly improved agent experience through role-based authentication and UI redesigns. Previously, Anusha has contributed to Wayfair’s internal order management systems and the integration of technologies to boost system reliability. Before Wayfair, she worked at Infosys, designing data warehouses and ETL processes, and as a Graduate Assistant at the University of Illinois. She holds a Master's in Computer Science and a Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering.
Software developer for 15 years, visited .Net, Ruby, Elixir, JavaScript and the rest of the full stack ecosystem. Currently enjoying Rust at Trigo, building AI driven autonomous stores and theft prevention systems.
Ash Vardanian is a seasoned researcher in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence with an astrophysical background. With a keen interest in High-Performance Computing, Ash has developed and maintained numerous Open-Source tools tailored for large-scale data processing, mostly focusing on GPU & SIMD-accelerated Vector and Full-Text Search.
Gustav is currently working as a software developer in SCADA MINDS doing consultant work in the wind power industry. He has previously worked on open-source projects like ts-jest and django_auto_prefetching
Sanchay Javeria is a Senior Software Engineer at Pinterest.
Andy Pavlo is an Associate Professor of Databaseology in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. His (unnatural) infatuation with database systems has inadvertently caused him to incur several distinctions, such as VLDB Early Career Award (2021), NSF CAREER (2019), Sloan Fellowship (2018), and the ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Best Dissertation Award (2014). He was also the CEO & co-founder of the OtterTune database tuning start-up (2020).
Danish is a Staff Software Engineer at Attentive, where he plays a key role in shaping the architecture and scalability of our product. With nearly 15 years of experience in building distributed systems for high traffic ad-tech and e-commerce, he has been instrumental in developing our next-generation marketing solutions powered by AI. Outside of work, Danish enjoys gardening, vermiculture, and rock climbing. He loves sharing his harvest with his four-year old son before they head out on climbing adventures together.
I’m a software developer at JPoint who loves to use and find new techniques and pragmatically apply them.
Andrei has over 12 years of experience as a Software Engineer in building high-load distributed systems. Currently, he is developing cutting-edge ML infrastructure.
I've been working at Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies since January 2024 soon after I graduated from North Carolina State University with B.E in Computer Science. I've mostly worked on Streaming technologies, employing Flink, Kafka, and Spring Boot, to support Rivian vehicles by providing real-time telemetry data to the stakeholders. I'm passionate about learning new technologies and collaborate and share ideas with others for problem solving and creating values.
Geoff is a Principal Engineer at AWS (Annapurna Labs) based in Austin, Texas. He works on the AWS Graviton based EC2 instances making sure everyone can get the most performance out of them. This includes contributing optimizations to open-source projects, helping customers tune their service for Graviton, and exploring new ways to measure and optimize performance.
Wednesday, October 22
8:00am – 1:00pm Pacific Time
16:00 – 20:00 UTC
Thursday, October 23
8:00am – 1:00pm Pacific Time
16:00 – 20:00 UTC
Follow us on Twitter @p99conf or Bluesky @scylladb.com for the latest updates.
Full agenda will be announced soon.
Great #p99conf so far -- a masterclass on all the kinds of latency in services, and then a really interesting talk from someone building their own toy operating system, and the latency challenges they solved in it.
— Adam Chalmers (@adamchalmers.com) October 23, 2024 at 10:00 AM
#P99CONF has been dope. always great listening to brilliant engineers..
— Julian Dumebi Duru (@durutheguru) October 23, 2024
The Scylla team’s conferences—P99 CONF and Monster Scale Summit— are top-tier. The hardest part is choosing a track when every session looks great. And the swag is in its own league 🙂
— Ivan Burmistrov (@isburmistrov.bsky.social) March 7, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Great talk at @P99CONF about Patterns of Low Latency. @PekkaEngberg gave us a show!! Great event, @ScyllaDB. pic.twitter.com/0hdxJeidjU
— João Victor Martins (@j_a_o_v_c_t_r) October 23, 2024
#P99CONF speaker wearing a pantera shirt and the chat’s like 😍 - performance nerds come in all shapes and sizes! #ScyllaDB
— doertedev 🇩🇪🏋🏼🍗 (@doertedev) October 24, 2024
😍 eBee has flown onto the sticker pack for #p99conf ! And look how nicely the ScyllaDB monster is gazing up at her 😀
— Liz Rice 💛💙🐝 (@lizrice.com) October 1, 2024 at 2:52 AM
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Excited for Day 2 @P99CONF with this cute little guest 🥰 #P99CONF pic.twitter.com/FiyO8ffqpN
— Aadhav Vignesh (@carrotburnt) October 24, 2024
The banger opening presentation at P99 Conf by Professor Andy Pavlo
— v (@avi.im) October 26, 2024 at 7:34 PM
watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD-0dw4gUhw
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P99 conf videos are available here www.p99conf.io If you enjoy things like low-latency, high-performance or distributed systems I am sure you'll find something you like!
— Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar (@migue.bsky.social) October 25, 2024 at 11:05 PM
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Never have I wanted a swag pack so much #P99CONF #ScyllaDB
— Peter Bowyer (@peterbowyer) October 24, 2024
My @plotlygraphs T-shirt is 10yrs old and must go... pic.twitter.com/Qq3U3wT6OO
Andy Pavlo's talk at #P99CONF was mind blowing. Beautiful synergy between eBPF and databases explained with some great performance benchmark numbers. Looking forward to reading more on this from the CMU report - https://t.co/Ulc877HtKy pic.twitter.com/f6PDJhIi98
— Debasish (দেবাশিস্) Ghosh 🇮🇳 (@debasishg) October 26, 2024
An awesome talk by Cristian Velazquez (Uber) on enhancing P99 latency for third-party APIs (yup!), full of adventures and very interesting solutions! Definitely going to apply some of them for our use cases!#P99CONF #ScyllaDB pic.twitter.com/30qTwdJ4wl
— aksh1618 (@aksh1618) October 24, 2024
congrats to #p99conf for being the best conference at absolutely dominating my timeline with interesting-as-shit talks for two days solid
— knewter 🇺🇲/acc (@knewter) October 26, 2024
There’s no other event like this — a conference for engineers by engineers, where we’ll share novel approaches for solving complex problems efficiently and at speed. Vendor and tool agnostic, this conference will be for a highly technical audience only. Your boss’s boss is not invited.
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