Manychat SRE Meetup
Dark Side of AI Infrastructure - What It Takes to Keep Systems Running
📍 Cinema The Pulse, Amsterdam Zuid
📅 November 19, 2026
🕕 18:00–22:00 (Doors open at 18:00, Talks start at 18:30)
💡 About
AI gets the headlines. Infrastructure does the heavy lifting.
Behind every new model, product and platform are engineering teams making difficult decisions about performance, reliability, capacity and scale.
But what does it actually take to keep complex systems running?
Manychat is bringing together Amsterdam's SRE, Platform Engineering and Infrastructure community for an evening of technical talks with engineers from Manychat, JetBrains and Nebius.
We'll get into the challenges that rarely make it into product announcements: responding to incidents, making the most of limited GPU capacity, managing infrastructure trade-offs and keeping production systems reliable.
Three engineering perspectives. Real production challenges. Plenty to discuss.
And once the talks are over, we'll continue the conversation over food and drinks.
⚡ What to Expect
🎤 3 Technical Deep Dives
Engineering insights from the teams behind Manychat, JetBrains and Nebius.
⚙️ Behind the Infrastructure
Incident response, GPU scheduling, capacity constraints and the decisions that shape production reliability.
💬 Questions Worth Asking
Go beyond the slides, discuss technical trade-offs and compare approaches with speakers and fellow engineers.
🥂 Meet the Community
Connect with Amsterdam's SRE, Platform and Infrastructure engineers over drinks and snacks.
🗓️ Agenda
18:00 – Doors open, food & networking
18:30 – Welcome & opening
18:40 – 🎤 Dzmitry Yatskevich, Head of Infrastructure at Manychat
Cut Incident Time from 10 Hours to 10 Minutes
Twenty years of incident management distilled into practical lessons. Dzmitry will cover the stages of incident response, the OODA loop and approaches to reducing MTTA and MTTR - with or without additional tooling.
19:15 – 🎤 Andrei Vishniakov, MLOps Lead at JetBrains
Overcommit on Purpose: Fast Pulls, Dense Packing, and Fair GPU Scheduling for ML Workloads
Andrei will explore how to balance GPU availability and utilization, including the scheduling challenges of reinforcement-learning workloads and the engineering trade-offs involved.
19:45 – 🎤 Ivan Bakurskii, Lead SRE at Nebius
Talk topic to be announced.
20:20 – Closing
20:30 – 🥂 Drinks, snacks & community networking
22:00 – Event close
🎯 Built for...
Site Reliability Engineers
Platform Engineers
Infrastructure & Cloud Engineers
DevOps Engineers
Staff & Principal Engineers
Engineering Managers & Technical Leaders
MLOps & AI Infrastructure Engineers
For the engineers behind the systems - the ones building, scaling, monitoring and keeping them running.
🎟️ Registration
Attendance is free, but seats are limited.
Bring your questions, meet the people solving similar challenges, and leave with ideas worth taking back to your team.