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Devdatta Kulkarni is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. His academic work focuses on cloud-native systems, with research interests that include multi-tenancy, provenance, and scalable system design in modern cloud infrastructure. At UT Austin, he teaches and mentors students in cloud-native technologies, emphasizing practical system-building skills that are grounded in real-world infrastructure challenges. Devdatta is also the founder of CloudARK, where he has worked with independent software vendors and managed service providers to accelerate SaaS delivery using Kubernetes. He has made significant contributions to the OpenStack community, serving as the Project Team Lead for Solum. His work involves exploring topics such as Application CI/CD, solving Provenance Issues in Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) models of cloud computing, and addressing challenges related to non-relational key-value stores and access control.
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