Itamar Balla is a Cloud Software Architect with expertise in Kubernetes and MLOps. They currently serve as a Cloud Software Engineer at Intel Corporation since 2024 and previously held positions there as a Software Application Developer from 2021 to 2024 and a Process Engineer from 2018 to 2021. Itamar also worked as an Application Engineer at Carl Zeiss SMT in 2011-2012. They earned a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Northwestern University, where they studied from 2012 to 2017.