Smartly x Cloud Native Helsinki - May meetup

Hosted by Smartly.io
Joint event with DevOps Finland - register only in one group! https://www.meetup.com/devops-finland/

Agenda
17:00 Doors open
17:30 Welcome / Cloud Native Helsinki & DevOps Finland & Smartly
17:45 Secured AWS access from baremetal Kubernetes / Nilanjan Roy, Ruiyang Ding, Erik Karsten @ Smartly
18:30 ***break ***
18:45 Running and Scaling the vLLM inference server optimally on Kubernetes / Esko Vähämäki, CTO and Co-founder @ ConfidentialMind
19:30 Free discussion
20:30 Doors close

Secured AWS access from baremetal Kubernetes
From long-lived secrets to identity: giving Kubernetes workloads AWS access the boring, safe way.
A cross-team collaboration by DevOps Engineers at Smartly.

Running and Scaling the vLLM inference server optimally on Kubernetes
Esko Vähämäki, CTO and Co-founder at ConfidentialMind

I’m a seasoned technology entrepreneur and software architect. Over the past six years, I’ve helped launch and grow venture-funded startups—including Surrogate.tv and ConfidentialMind—to transform ambitious ideas into successful products. At ConfidentialMind, I’ve led the development of Kubernetes-based system for generative AI, leveraging open-source technologies to drive innovation and scalability. I believe that actively contributing to open-source community and sharing best practices fuels both individual growth and the broader tech community, enabling us all to build more robust and impactful solutions.

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NOTE: The event will be live-streamed on the Cloud Native Nordics YouTube.

NOTE: Signing up for the event gets you a seat at the onsite event.

NOTE: Pictures might be taken during the event and be pub