[IN-PERSON] Tech Talk: Cloud-Native DevOps: Scaling Automation and Intelligence

We’re BACK! 🚀

Join us on June 9th from 6:30–8:30pm at Capital Factory (8th Floor, Captain America Room) for another high-energy GDG Austin Tech Talk!

We’re thrilled to welcome our keynote speaker, Akshay Mittal—Staff Software Engineer at PayPal, IEEE Senior Member, and an all-around tech powerhouse with over a decade of experience in full-stack development and cloud-native systems.

This talk is going to be 🔥 for anyone in DevOps, cloud engineering, or working adjacently to these functions!

As enterprises go all-in on cloud-native, DevOps is evolving fast. Akshay will show us how AI and ML are redefining DevOps—boosting observability, streamlining CI/CD, and making incident management smarter and more predictive. You’ll leave with real-world strategies to plug AI/ML into your toolchain and take your infrastructure game to the next level.

🕖 Doors open at 6:30pm

🎤 Akshay’s talk kicks off at 7:00pm sharp

🚗 $8 validated parking for all attendees

Whether you’re scaling your stack, modernizing workflows, or just love good tech and great people—don’t miss this one.

We can’t wait to see you there! 👋

Agenda

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Speaker

Akshay Mittal - PayPal (Staff Software Engineer)

Akshay Mittal is an accomplished technology leader and IEEE Senior Member with over a decade of experience as a full-stack developer, cloud architect and community builder. In his role as Staff Software Engineer at PayPal, he designs and scales high-performance cloud-native systems that support mission-critical financial services at global scale, leveraging expertise in distributed architectur…

Hosts

Chad Pavliska - Self-Employed (Indie Developer & Fractional CTO)

A product-minded engineering leader with 20+ years delivering mobile transformation projects. A team player who can work alongside and communicate with other leaders to challenge and lift up an organization to do great things.
I maintain a vibrant network of like-minded people who love the game as much as I do. Don't hesitate to reach out to me and introduce yourself. I enjoy talking ab…

Ryan Francis - Whisler Inc. (CEO & Co-Founder)

I’m Ryan and as the CEO/Co-Founder of Whisler, I partner with companies across the US to find top-tier mobile engineering talent within Flutter, iOS, Android, and React Native. I can do a bit of everything outside of mobile (FE, BE, DevOps/Cloud, QA, ML, Marketing, Product), but mobile is my true specialization 📲.
I am a proven, dedicated, and hard-working recruiter who will always go th…

Mike Miller - NearByNext (Co-Founder & Lead Engineer)

I'm a software engineer passionate about using technology to enable and support creators and artists. I used to work for Pixar developing tools for the animators before working on some projects of my own aimed at helping independent creators reach their audience and boost their income. I'm currently working on Videate, a new platform for video creators to share their work.

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Partner

Whisler Inc (https://www.whisler.io)
Whisler is a hyper-specialized staffing solutions business with a focus in the Flutter framework.

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