Put open source to work
July 16–17, 2018: Training & Tutorials
July 18–19, 2018: Conference
Portland, OR
Nilesh Patel

Nilesh Patel
Technical Product Manager, Watson and Cloud Platform, IBM

Nilesh Patel is a staff technical product manager for IBM Watson and Cloud Platform, where he works on Istio and IBM container services and is helping to drive Istio adoption in the open source community by organizing various meetups and events at conferences. Since joining IBM, he has managed several DevOps products in the area of deployment and releases automation. Previously, he managed security products at Symantec. Nilesh holds an MBA in information technology from Golden Gate University. He lives in Austin, Texas. When not at work, he likes to play cricket and volleyball.

Sessions

12:00pm–12:30pm Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Istio in production: A few real-world use cases
Istio
 Location: B113-114
Nilesh Patel (IBM )
Nilesh Patel shares real-world customer use cases for Istio in production, covering best practices, issues encountered during deployment, lessons learned, and suggestions for improvement. Nilesh also explains how Istio is helping these customers move fast, reduce cost, and better secure their microservices. Read more.
11:00am–11:40am Thursday, July 19, 2018
Build a machine learning stack on Kubernetes using Kubeflow
Artificial intelligence, Kubernetes
 Location: D137/138
Level: Beginner
Nilesh Patel (IBM )
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Kubernetes has quickly become the hybrid solution for deploying complicated workloads anywhere. Recently, customers have begun to move complex workloads to the platform, taking advantage of rich APIs, reliability, and performance. Nilesh Patel explains how to use Kubernetes as a platform to run machine learning apps, using Kubeflow, a new open source project launched by Google. Read more.