Engineering the Path from Legacy to Cloud-Native Architecture

The San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the IEEE Computer Society invites for a free and open Tech Talk (no IEEE membership required):

Speaker: Kalyan Chakravarthy Thatikonda <LinkedIn>

Title: Beyond Lift-and-Shift: Engineering the Path from Legacy to Cloud-Native Architecture

Abstract: Enterprise organizations face critical challenges when migrating legacy applications to cloud environments, with traditional lift-and-shift approaches failing to address fundamental architectural limitations or unlock the true benefits of cloud-native capabilities. These simplistic migrations often result in higher operational costs, continued technical debt, and inability to leverage modern development practices, essentially moving existing problems to a new location rather than solving them. This technical session addresses the engineering challenges of true architectural transformation, offering systematic approaches for incremental decomposition, state management during transition, and automated migration at scale that minimize business disruption while enabling organizations to break free from legacy constraints and fully embrace cloud-native architecture.

Bio: Kalyan Chakravarthy Thatikonda works at Salesforce as a Principal Member of Technical Staff Software Engineer. Mr. Thatikonda is an accomplished engineer with 15 plus years of experience in Distributed Systems and Cloud Infrastructure Engineering. He Holds a Master's degree in Computer Science and possesses deep expertise in automation strategies, enterprise migration frameworks, and compliance implementation within complex environments. Proven ability to guide organizations through successful digital transformations, optimizing infrastructure while ensuring regulatory adherence. Mr. Thatikonda holds multiple patents in distributed computing, distributed database transaction optimization, multi-cloud caching, and intelligent machine learning-driven request distribution. Mr. Thatikonda is a published researcher contributing to advancements in cloud-native architecture and compliance automation. Delivers scalable, secure, and efficient cloud solutions that drive significant business value through a combination of technical mastery and strategic insight.