How Netflix and Walmart Mastered Fast and Reliable Software Releases: Best Practices & Pitfalls
Join us for a 1-hour interactive workshop and AMA session to elevate your release management process, featuring insights from Ankit Jain, CEO of Aviator, and Vilas Veeraraghavan, Former Platform & Developer Experience Leadership at Walmart, Netflix, Bill.com, and TruckStop. This event is tailored for engineering leaders and senior engineers who want to overcome the challenges of managing software releases at scale.
Meet the Speakers 🗣
Ankit Jain is the CEO and co-founder of Aviator, a developer productivity startup. An ex-Google engineer, Ankit has led multiple engineering teams and now helps teams optimize their release and deployment workflows.
Vilas is an experienced Engineering leader who has driven Platform, Product, and Developer tooling innovation at Comcast, Netflix, Walmart, Bill, and Truckstop, building high-performance teams that do efficient software delivery of distributed workloads in the cloud, chaos engineering, CI/CD at scale and improving DevEx across the enterprise by enabling engineers to do more with tools. He has deep expertise in varied industries like Media Streaming, Retail, Fintech, and the transportation and logistics industry.
In this event, you will:
🔍 Uncover Key Release Challenges: Learn how to streamline deployments and rollbacks, mitigate risks in production, and identify common bottlenecks that slow down your release cycle.
🔧 Master Best Practices for Safe Releases: Get actionable strategies for managing service-specific release notes, automating release workflows, and improving overall deployment visibility.
💡 Collaborate in a Hands-On Session: Engage in an interactive session where the speakers will share practical solutions to common release management challenges, followed by an open AMA.
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