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Balachander
Keelapudi
Senior Solutions Architect
AWS
Balachander Keelapudi is a Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services with deep expertise in cloud-native architecture, infrastructure engineering, and emerging Agentic AI systems. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he has spent more than seven years helping organizations design secure, scalable, and reliable cloud solutions that support digital transformation and operational efficiency at enterprise scale. With a strong technical foundation and a focus on evaluating and implementing AI systems, Bala works at the intersection of cloud infrastructure and next-generation AI applications. His experience spans enterprise architecture, distributed systems, and AI-driven innovation, helping teams modernize platforms while balancing scalability, security, and performance.
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22 September 2026 16:15 - 16:45
Grounded Eval-Driven Development Approach for Product Managers and Domain Experts building AI Agents
This talk introduces Grounded Eval-Driven Development (GEDD) — a novel approach that puts product managers and domain experts at the center of AI agent evaluation. Borrowing qualitative research techniques from social science (Open Coding, Axial Coding, and the Paradigm Model), GEDD provides a systematic, repeatable process to discover failure patterns from real agent behavior, categorize them into meaningful quality criteria, and collaborate with ML engineers to operationalize them at scale using LLM-as-a-Judge.