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CNCF-hosted Co-located Events Europe 2025 taking place on Tuesday, 1 April. This event is happening in person at Excel London in London, England.

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WEDNESDAY - FRIDAY: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe Schedule (Pre-Registration Required)
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Panel: Platform Engineering in Financial Institutions: The Practitioner Panel- Suhail Patel, Monzo; Paula Kennedy, Syntasso; Jinhong Brejnholt, Saxo Bank; Rachael Wonnacott, Fidelity; Mark Campbell, Natwest Bank
Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:40 - 15:05 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F
In the world of small and large financial institutions, platform engineering is a driver for shipping quickly, safely, and efficiently. This panel brings together seasoned practitioners from leading banks and financial institutions to share their firsthand platform experiences, successes, and challenges.

- Discover how platform engineering can enhance developer experience, facilitate rapid innovation and drive efficiencies.
- Delve into the complexities of navigating regulatory compliance, specifically when using open source technologies such as Kubernetes.
- Learn from the experts' successes, setbacks and strategies (across technology and people), gaining actionable insights for successful implementation.

Join us as we discuss the journey of adopting and deploying CNCF technologies at scale within the highly regulated financial sector. We’ll explore practical examples of both successes and incidents where things have gone wrong, providing the audience with valuable takeaways.
Speakers
avatar for Paula Kennedy

Paula Kennedy

COO, Syntasso
Paula is Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Syntasso; previous roles include Senior Director at VMware Tanzu, Pivotal and Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of CloudCredo.With 20+ years experience in IT, Paula champions community, diversity and inclusion and has a range of... Read More →
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Suhail Patel

Senior Staff Engineer, Monzo
Suhail is a Staff Engineer at Monzo focused on building the Core Platform. His role involves building and maintaining Monzo's infrastructure which spans over two thousand microservices and leverages key infrastructure components like Kubernetes, Cassandra, Etcd and more. He focuses... Read More →
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Jinhong Brejnholt

Chief Cloud Architect, Saxo Bank
Jinhong, an accomplished cloud and platform architect, is deeply committed to advancing DevSecOps practices and cloud-native technologies. Armed with an MSc. in Software Development and Technology, she boasts certifications as a Kubernetes application developer, administrator, and... Read More →
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Rachel Wonnacott

Associate Director - Container Platform Engineering, Fidelity International
Rachael has spent the last decade focused on platform engineering. She places a conscious emphasis on improving flow and is on the quest to smooth the application lifecycle for developers in the enterprise. With a background in astrophysics, Rachael brings her scientific approach... Read More →
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Mark Campbell

Head of Cloud Platforms, NatWest Bank
Mark is the Platform Lead for Cloud Platforms at NatWest, leading the engineering and operations of the bank’s private and public cloud environments, infrastructure and tooling. This followed leading a largescale cloud programme between 2018-2020 where he drove significant change... Read More →
Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:40 - 15:05 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F
  Platform Engineering Day, Measuring Platform Success
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