CNCF-hosted Co-located Events Europe 2025 taking place on 1 April. This event is happening in person at Excel Londonin London, England. The Sched app allows you to build your schedule, but is not a substitute for your event registration. You must be registered for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025, and have an All-Access pass in order to participate in the sessions.
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Platform engineering is no longer just about building infrastructure—it’s about creating products that empower teams and businesses to innovate. But how do we transition from a technical, bottom-up approach to one that is truly user-centric? This panel will bring together diverse perspectives from industry leaders who have led the charge in transforming platform offerings into cohesive, product-driven solutions. We’ll discuss how they’ve navigated the challenges of aligning with stakeholder needs, measuring success, and overcoming the risks of overengineering, all while ensuring the end-user remains at the heart of the product. From qualitative metrics to platform maturity models, this discussion will provide insights on how to build platforms that not only serve the infrastructure but are also recognized as strategic products.
Technology enthusiastMember of the "containers" team at SNCF (France) for 8 years, contributing and promoting our internal kubernetes service, containers practices, cloud-native ecosystem and now platform-engineering.
Product Leader at Adobe with 13+ years of industrial experience with strong technical, leadership and product management skills encompassing leading SaaS products, Developer Platforms and Serverless technologies. A strategical thinker and passionate about building great products and... Read More →
Lou has worked in tech for over 10 years, starting out as a front-end engineer, then back-end, and later into cloud engineering and platform engineering in internal developer experience teams. Lou now works on product at Gitpod.
