Smruti Patel

Smruti Patel

Building for success, scale and sustainability -- an engineering leader, a systems thinker and a life long learner.

Executive Runtime: Two Decades of Infrastructure Leadership

Conversation with Johnny Austin on scaling Stripe's Data Platform from 30 to 180 people, systems thinking in infrastructure, and building for reliability at global scale...

Shipping Agentic Experiences - Going Beyond Pilots to Production

Panel discussion on taking AI agents from experimentation to production - strategies for building reliable, scalable agentic systems in enterprise environments...

Prompt to Production: Operationalizing AI in Engineering

Main stage panel on moving beyond clever prompts to production-ready AI solutions - building trust, measuring impact, and transforming the engineer's role...

Acceleration, Autonomy, and Accountability - a framework for successful platforms

Lessons from building three platforms across VMware, Stripe, and Apollo GraphQL - from Solis cost platform to ShuttleCrawler delivery platform to Monster async processing...

Growth in a Downturn

Keynote address on navigating engineering growth during economic uncertainty - strategies for building resilient teams and sustainable practices...

Infrastructure Engineering Deep Dive: Leading Data Platform at Stripe

Comprehensive interview on building critical data infrastructure, debugging velocity, managing distributed systems, and navigating organizational programs at scale...