Viren Baraiya
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Founder/CTO @Orkes.io. Creator of Netflix Conductor
Co-Founder and CTO of Orkes - https://orkes.io/
Orkes is on a mission to help developers build resilient, stateful applications in cloud.
Hands on engineering leader focused on building scalable infrastructure products that provides multiplier effect.
Co-Creator of Netflix Conductor https://github.com/Netflix/conductor
- Building distributed, highly scalable and available systems
- Cloud experience including private / public cloud migrations
- Enterprise security having built the first of Netflix's RBAC and owned SSO integrations for McGraw-Hill Higher ed
- Experience in managing large, geographically distributed teams
- Developer evangelist
- Polyglot (Programming and natural languages)
Session
The Agent Execution Gap: Why Most Agent Systems Don't Go Beyond POC (And How Yours Can)
Agents shine in POCs but fail in production. This session shows how reliable, observable orchestration bridges the gap by embedding agentic behavior into business workflows, and how MCP gateways turn internal services into MCP tools so your APIs are agent ready without glue code.