Monali Nayak

Monali Nayak is a Senior Platform Engineer at Elastic with over 6 years of experience building the high-scale infrastructure required for enterprise innovation. A curious engineer who loves building resilient systems that “don’t break at 3 AM,” she specializes in solving complex problems end-to-end from deep infrastructure to application logic. Currently, she leads cloud re-architecture on GKE and is driving the adoption of LLM Gateways and MCP servers to support robust, production-ready GenAI workloads.A former Smart India Hackathon Evaluator, ex-researcher and speaker, Monali is always learning, building, and seeking new ways to enable enterprise innovation through technology.