
Speaker: Ruslan Kharitonov
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Head of Compute @Citadel, Founder @Efacity, Previously Technology Fellow and Global Head of Network and Storage Software Engineering @GoldmanSachs, 25+ Years in Software and System Engineering
Ruslan Kharitonov leads the Compute team at Citadel, where he oversees the development and management of Operating Systems, Virtualization, Containerization, and Orchestration platforms. He has over 25 years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, and SRE. Previously, as a Technology Fellow at Goldman Sachs, he led initiatives focused on automating network and storage platforms. Additionally, Ruslan is the founder of Efacity, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing K-12 STEAM education.
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Session
Unleashing Kubernetes for Secure Bare-Metal Workloads
Kubernetes is great for general cloud-native workloads but struggles with low latency and high-performance computing (HPC) due to its abstraction overhead, lack of optimized scheduling, and network inefficiencies.