[In-Person] Cloud Native Kuala Lumpur Meetup - June 2026

Join us for the in-person June 2026 edition of Cloud Native Kuala Lumpur Meetup!

Whether you are a software developer, SRE, cloud engineer or just interested in cloud native (and open source) concepts, this meetup is perfect for you.

This is also a great opportunity to network and connect with other professionals in the industry who are also passionate about cloud native. Don't miss out on the chance to learn from industry experts and discuss the latest advancements in cloud computing, software security, and more. RSVP now and secure your spot for the meetup!

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Date: June 9th, 2026 (Tuesday)
Time: 6pm - 9.30pm
Venue: Arvato Systems @ Gtower

Agenda
6.00pm: Arrival + Food
7.15pm: Welcome note
7.30pm: Talk 1#: OpenSearch by Aswath (AWS)
8.00pm: Lightning talk / Hiring / Buzzcorner
8.30pm: Talk #2: Rebuilding Trust in the Software Supply Chain on Kubernetes by Kavish Punchoo (Arvato Systems)
9.00pm: End

Session Details (Talk #1)

Speaker Bio: Aswath Srinivasan is a Senior Search Engine Architect at Amazon Web Services currently based in Munich, Germany. With over 18 years of experience in various search technologies, he currently focuses on OpenSearch. He is a search and open-source enthusiast and helps customers and the community with their search problems

Session Title: Search innovations with OpenSearch
Session Description: In this talk we will go through the Innovations in Search with OpenSearch, a completely open-source search engine. The OpenSearch project comes under Linux Foundation.
We will dive into differentiating capabilities like scalable Neural Sparse ANN Search using the SEISMIC algorithm, and the new Search Relevance Workbench for metric-driven relevance evaluation, automatically building Vector Search pipelines at query runtime and UI editor for AI Search workflow set up.
The talk will include a demo on

• Agentic Search with OpenSearch using locally hosted LLM models
• Search Relevance Workbench to improve Search Relevance and lastly
• A preview of the upcoming Agentic Search Relevance Tuning that makes tuning Relevance easier

Session Details (Talk #2)

Speaker Bio: Kavish is a DevOps Architect based in Kuala Lumpur. He works on Kubernetes, DevSecOps, container platforms, and developer tooling, with experience across cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and platform engineering. He is a Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) and AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional

Session Title: Rebuilding Trust in the Software Supply Chain on Kubernetes
Session Description: This session looks at how software supply chain attacks affect Kubernetes teams and what can be done about them. The session will explain how trust is lost across dependencies, build pipelines, and container images, and how it can be rebuilt using signed artifacts, provenance, SBOMs, and admission control. The talk will then connect these ideas to CNCF projects that can help enforce policy in Kubernetes, namely Kyverno, in-toto, and ORAS. The focus will be on practical ways to verify container images, understand their contents, and reduce the risk of deploying untrusted or compromised software