Talks

A running list of the talks, panels, podcasts, and workshops I've given, newest first. Mostly distributed systems, event-driven design, machine learning, and lately how AI fits across the software lifecycle.

2026 5 talks
Jul 2026

Engineer the Environment, Not Just the Prompt

Sahaj DevDay · Bengaluru, India

Prompt engineering was phase one of AI-augmented development and context engineering was phase two, and it's hitting its ceiling. The next phase is harness engineering: shaping the whole environment an agent works in, not just the prompt.

Talk
Jun 2026

Why AI Tools Aren't Delivering Business Impact (And How to Fix It)

Sahaj emerge · Mumbai, India

Peer-level discussion on closing the "ambition gap" between powerful models and measurable business impact, introducing the Embedded AI Co-Engineering model: external practitioners building and operating solutions alongside internal teams for safer deployment and measurable ROI.

Talk
Feb 2026

Product Value Through intelligent Engineering

Sahaj emerge · London, UK

Breakfast roundtable on integrating AI into core business processes by deploying AI agents across the entire product delivery lifecycle, anchored by a Talon Outdoor case study on building AI into the core of a product.

Talk

with Andy Stevens

Also at Mumbai, India
Jan 2026

intelligent Engineering Buildathon

Sahaj DevDay · Hyderabad, India

A talk and hands-on build day on applying intelligent Engineering practices: using AI-assisted coding tools and agents as part of the development workflow to think better, move faster and build smarter.

Workshop
2025 4 talks
Dec 2025

Human + AI: intelligent Engineering in Action

Sahaj emerge · New York, USA

Sahaj "emerge" roundtable on getting real value from AI across the entire SDLC: designing, building and deploying better solutions faster through collaboration between product, engineering and AI agents.

Talk

with George Song
Nov 2025

What Happens Before and After the Code? AI Has a Role There Too!

Sahaj DevDay · Pune, India

How AI supports engineers across the full development lifecycle: sharpening requirements and design before code, test strategy and quality during, and debugging and operations after release.

Talk ▶ 2h 5m
Apr 2025

Data Warfare: Tales from the Trenches

Sahaj DevDay · Pune, India

Hosted the closing Birds of a Feather: informal discussion groups on the data engineering war stories from the day, from data stores at scale to stream processing, petabyte-scale platforms, and change data capture.

BoF
Mar 2025

Optimizing Business Decisions with AI: Evolutionary Algorithms in Action

Sahaj DevDay · Hyderabad, India

How machine learning and guided search techniques like genetic algorithms tackle real-world business optimization problems, from formulating the problem mathematically to implementing it in Python.

Talk
2024 2 talks
Apr 2024

Responsible AI

Google Developer Group DevFest · Pune, India

Panel on how responsible AI keeps systems fair and transparent by aligning them with ethical principles, covering bias mitigation, legal risks, and balancing innovation with governance.

Panel ▶ 46m
Jan 2024

From Concept to Code: Building a Q&A Bot Live with LLM

Sahaj DevDay · Pune, India

Live coding session building a Q&A bot from scratch using Large Language Models, taking a practical LLM application from concept to working code.

Talk ▶ 1h 7m

with Ajinkya Khot
2020 1 talk
Jan 2020

Managing Data Pipelines at Scale

StackToHeap Podcast · Remote

A conversation on the fun, the challenges, and the lessons learned managing data pipelines at scale, and what it takes to build reliable, scalable data infrastructure.

Podcast ▶ 57m

with Srimathi H
2019 3 talks
Jul 2019

(Machine) Learning to Detect Fraudsters

Sahaj DevDay · Chennai, India

How machine learning helps banks stay ahead of credit-card fraudsters with adaptive fraud detection systems as attacker behaviour keeps evolving.

Talk ▶ 1h 21m

Also at Pune, India
Jun 2019

Releasing Event-Driven Microservices to Production Every Week

Globant QuaNTA NXT · Pune, India

Building horizontally scalable, asynchronous event-driven microservice platforms and shipping to production every week, leaning on unit tests and consumer-driven contract tests, with examples from the payment lifecycle.

Talk
2018 2 talks
Feb 2018

Microservices? Serverless is the answer!

DevNexus · Atlanta, USA

Comparing serverless and microservice implementations of an event-driven system across cross-functional requirements, and where serverless is the right choice.

Talk ▶ 59m

Also at New York, USA
2017 2 talks
Apr 2017

Bridging the Gap: System Integration in an Event Driven System

O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference · New York, USA

Bridging the divide between modern event-sourced systems and more traditional architectures, with practical strategies for integrating legacy systems into event-driven ecosystems.

Talk ▶ 48m

Also at London, UK

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