Purnima Kumari
Senior Solutions Architect at DigitalOcean optimizing AI and cloud architectures.
Purnima Kumari is a Senior Solutions Architect at DigitalOcean. She focuses on translating complex cloud and AI architectures into clear, practical systems for engineering teams.
Rather than just throwing more hardware at a problem, Purnima looks at the underlying system design. She frequently speaks on scaling LLM inference by rethinking parallelism, memory layouts, and runtime configurations. Her work dives into vLLM internals and KV cache optimization to double production throughput without needing extra GPUs.