Ramakrishna Devulapalli
Co-Founder & Chief Architect at Larnya LLC
Ramakrishna Devulapalli is the Co-Founder and Chief Architect of Larnya LLC, and a Technology Leader with 25+ years of experience across IT services consulting and enterprise SaaS, specializing in cloud strategy and data & AI platforms. A hands-on architect and trusted advisor to executive stakeholders, Ramakrishna has led globally distributed teams to design and deliver data and AI systems that solve real problems — from an AI/ML solution predicting flood risk to protect miners' lives, to an Azure Databricks platform spanning 100+ data sources and 2TB+ of data for a global supply chain company. That work spans Databricks, Snowflake, and Microsoft Fabric on Azure, AWS, and GCP across Finance, Healthcare, Supply Chain, and State/Federal sectors. Ramakrishna founded Larnya to cut through the hype and help teams put AI to work in practical, grounded, and genuinely useful ways.
Talks
Data Con LA 2026
Practical AI: The Judgment Call Behind a 50% Faster Data Pipeline
Migrating 100+ years of fragmented patient data into a modern Silver layer meant constant pressure to let AI move faster — but not everywhere. I want the room to walk away with the judgment call my team made in real time: which patient-data transformations we trusted to AI, and which ones we never would, because a wrong call there doesn't just break a pipeline — it reaches a patient.
https://youtu.be/Il1qvpr0qwo?t=834