I’m Vara Bonthu, an open-source architect and maintainer advancing Data and AI/ML platforms on Kubernetes.
My work focuses on the convergence of distributed data processing, model orchestration, and intelligent observability, enabling scalable, production-grade analytics and machine learning on cloud-native infrastructure.
I’m a maintainer of the CNCF Kubeflow Spark Operator, the AWS Labs Data on EKS and AWS Labs AI on EKS open-source projects, and the creator of the CNCF Kubeflow MCP Apache Spark History Server — a managed control plane that extends Spark’s observability, scalability, and governance across Kubernetes clusters.
I’m passionate about open innovation, agentic AI, and data platform resilience — bridging the worlds of data engineering, MLOps, and autonomous observability to shape the next generation of intelligent, self-healing data systems.
