Juana Nakfour

Juana Nakfour is a principal software architect on the NVIDIA NIM Blueprints team. Juana is a lead software architect and has been involved in the delivery of many NVIDIA products such as NIM, NIM Blueprints, and NVIDIA cloud functions. Before joining NVIDIA, Juana worked as a lead engineer and open source project maintainer at Red Hat contributing to Kubeflow and Open Data Hub. Juana is also an avid inventor with multiple awarded patents. Outside of work, Juana spends her time raising two kids, enjoying the outdoors hiking, skiing, mountain biking, and of course anything on or in the ocean.
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Posts by Juana Nakfour

Agentic AI / Generative AI Dec 12, 2025

Enabling Horizontal Autoscaling of Enterprise RAG Components on Kubernetes

Today’s best AI agents rely on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to enable more accurate results. A RAG system facilitates the use of a knowledge base to... 24 MIN READ
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Data Science Jan 22, 2025

Horizontal Autoscaling of NVIDIA NIM Microservices on Kubernetes

NVIDIA NIM microservices are model inference containers that can be deployed on Kubernetes. In a production environment, it’s important to understand the... 8 MIN READ