Akshay Ram is a renowned leader in cloud infrastructure, recognized for his contributions to enterprise-grade serverless and AI/ML cloud computing products, including AWS Fargate, AWS App Runner, and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). He currently drives AI/ML inference initiatives for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), empowering enterprises and AI startups to leverage AI accelerators, resulting in efficiency improvements. His career highlights include scaling AWS Fargate from its early days to enterprise adoption, launching AWS App Runner as a new AWS service, and accelerating AI/ML inference for GKE and Kubernetes in general.