Hey, I'm Prateek! I'm a Cloud-Native Developer and AI Engineer, building high-performance AI solutions at AMD's AI Platform Team. I design scalable systems for millions, specializing in Kubernetes, MLOps, and cloud-native architectures. Passionate about tackling hyper-scale challenges, I strive to optimize efficiency and drive innovation across the ML ecosystem.

Alongside my work, I actively contribute to CNCF and OpenGitOps projects, sharing code, insights, and best practices to strengthen the open-source community. I also lead and contribute to CNCF whitepapers on Scheduling for Cloud Native AI, Sustainable AI, and GitOps Patterns, helping to shape the future of cloud-native AI.

Currently, I'm focused on advancing distributed AI systems, optimizing model serving at scale, and developing next-generation MLOps frameworks that bridge the gap between research and production-ready solutions.

• 🚀 Distributed AI Systems: Architecting high-performance distributed inference pipelines and multi-node training clusters
• 🔬 Research: Contributing to CNCF whitepaper initiatives on Cloud Native AI scheduling and sustainable AI practices
• 🛠️ MLOps Innovation: Developing scalable workflows using Kubernetes, Kubeflow, and Kuberay for efficient vLLM inference
• 🌟 Open Source: Advancing ML tooling, GitOps practices, and contributing strategies for AI/ML through OpenGitOps

🚀 Leading & Contributing to:

• Scheduling for Cloud Native AI
• Foundations & Framework for Sustainable AI in Cloud-Native Environments
• Secrets Management in GitOps

🟣 Open | 🟢 Merged

🟣 Open Feature: Use docker buildx in CI to build containers for other architectures including ARM
🟢 Open Model Initiative: Feature/add DCO sign off pre-commit hook
🟢 Open Telemetry Collector: Add mdatagen replace option to check-contrib target
🟢 Open Model Initiative: Feature/add smoke tests api db
🟢 Open Model Initiative: Fix reset-postgres task volume name
🟢 Open Model Initiative: Enhancement/flake8 pipeline check
🟢 External Secrets Operator: Add values.schema.json generation to Helm chart
🟢 External Secrets Operator: bump helm-docs image version in Makefile

• Simplify Secret Management in Kubernetes Using ESO, Vault, and ArgoCD
• Goodbye Dockerfiles, Hello Buildpacks! -Transform Your Container Workflow
• Secrets Management with External Secrets Operator
• Scale Smarter: Mastering Event-Driven Scaling with KEDA on Kubernetes
• Exploring vClusters