Head, Developer Advocacy (EMEA/APAC) at DigitalOcean
Abhimanyu "Chitra" Selvan, aka "@diabhey," is a Head, Developer Advocacy (EMEA/APAC) and an engineer with expertise across multiple high-tech domains. His experience spans programming digital cockpit systems for Boeing 787 simulators, controlling automated industrial robots, and engineering FDA-approved medical IoT systems. Over the last half a decade, he has delved into the cloud-native ecosystem, particularly Kubernetes. Currently, he is tinkering with GPUs and helping developers build and break things at DigitalOcean. Find out more on diabhey.com.
What happens when autonomous vehicles need to communicate with passengers, dispatchers, traffic systems, and each other in real time?
Building a RoboTaxi platform taught me that traditional AI architectures crumble under the complexity of large-scale multi-agent communication.
In this talk, I'll share hard-won lessons from architecting a distributed AI system where hundreds of autonomous agents coordinate thousands of rides daily. You'll discover why point-to-point agent communication creates a brittle mess, and how event-driven architecture (EDA) becomes the nervous system that keeps everything connected.
Through a live demo of the RoboTaxi platform, I'll show you:
- How AI agents can communicate asynchronously without tight coupling
- The architecture decisions that separate toy demos from production-ready AI systems
Whether you're building chatbot networks, autonomous systems, or multi-agent AI applications, this session will give you the architectural foundation to scale beyond the prototype phase.