Speaking

Cloud Native, AI infrastructure, and platform engineering talks.

Andrey Lesnikov speaks about production AI infrastructure, Kubernetes GitOps, observability, restore automation, and platform systems that are built to survive real operations.

Speaking topics

• AI Infrastructure for Cloud-Native Platforms
• From Engineering Knowledge to Cloud Native AI Services
• Kubernetes GitOps Architecture with Argo CD, Flux, Terraform, and EKS
• AI Gateways: routing, policy, token budgets, provider failover, and observability
• RAG Knowledge Platforms for engineering teams and production operations
• OpenTelemetry, SLOs, and incident-ready observability meshes
• Backup, restore, and platform reliability automation

Public appearances and signals

• Cloud Native Rockstars 2026 — Company Award finalist, 3rd place — CONTACT Software GmbH
• Cloud Native Conference Frankfurt 2026 — Cloud-native systems, GitOps, and platform operations
• Fourier AI talks — AI infrastructure, automation, and production readiness

Verified references

• Cloud Native Rockstars 2026 official result Cloud Native Conference
  Official Company Award ranking listing Andrey Lesnikov, Senior Infrastructure & DevOps Engineer, CONTACT Software GmbH.
• Cloud Native Conference 2026 agenda Cloud Native Conference
  Agenda entry for the Company Awards pitch: Von Engineering Knowledge zu Cloud Native AI.
• Cloud Native Conference 2026 recap Cloud Native Conference
  Ruckblick 2026 with conference statistics, media partners, and Cloud Native Rockstars winners.
• Cloud Native Conference 2026 gallery Cloud Native Conference
  Official conference photo gallery.
• Cloud Native Rockstar Awards winners photo IT-Business
  IT-Business gallery image caption naming Andrey Lesnikov, CONTACT Software GmbH, among the winners.
• Organizer LinkedIn recap LinkedIn / Lydia Hundsdorfer
  Public organizer recap mentioning the Cloud Native Rockstars 2026 award winners and conference context.

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