Vivek Karunai Kiri Ragavan is a Graduate Student at Purdue University, set to graduate in May 2025. He has over four years of experience in Kubernetes, Cloud, and Software Engineering at scale, having contributed to platforms at Cisco Systems, Eli Lilly, and Purdue's Rosen Center for Advanced Computing.
His current focus is on Kubernetes, ML/AI Model Serving, and LLMOps with research centered on efficient resource scheduling, GPU autoscaling, and network-aware scheduling.
An active open-source contributor, Vivek is deeply engaged in cloud-native technologies and ML/AI infrastructure. As President and Mentor of the Cloud Native Association at Purdue, he leads efforts to build a strong community around cloud-native computing.