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Sure, internal portals promise order and consistency, but what happens when you’re left with a Rube Goldberg machine of half-baked integrations? Join the founder of Northflank at KubeCon for a wake-up call: what’s trendy may not be what’s right for your organization. It’s time to focus on what really matters—delivering workloads. For realz.
In this talk, you’ll hear why gluing together countless widgets and screens can leave you with an unwieldy UI that merely documents your workloads, rather than actively driving them forward. A new coat of paint doesn’t make your foundation sturdy. Sure, a system of record is helpful when you want to know who owns which service, but it doesn’t do much to accelerate deployments, avoid infrastructure toil, or streamline your developers’ experience. Why settle for an incomplete solution pioneered by a music-streaming service, leaving you to fill in the missing pieces?
Focus on what matters: enabling your engineers to ship workloads with ease—because customers don’t pay you to write YAML.
We’ll explore how the evolution of infrastructure-as-code paves the way for a proper app platform—one that handles everything from automated deployments across preview, staging, and production. You’ll discover how a platform for workload delivery can give your team the confidence to move fast while retaining the flexibility to pivot across clouds or on-prem, all with a consistent experience that developers actually enjoy using.
By the end of this session, you’ll have a blueprint for a platform that’s not just a pretty interface, but a true system of action—one that supports containers, databases, microservices, and even batch jobs, all accessible through a UI, GitOps, CLI, or API. If you’re ready to shift from endless portal-building to true workload delivery, this talk is for you. Get ready to unleash a new era of developer empowerment.
In this 5-minute session, Jabed Amin, Developer Relations at Cortex.io, will explain how platform engineers can enhance their impact by treating their Internal Developer Portal as a product. By understanding internal customers’ needs, prioritizing features, and ensuring a seamless developer experience, platform engineers can 10x their team’s productivity. Join us to discover how adopting this mindset can transform your platform engineering efforts into a high-impact, developer-centric initiative that empowers your teams and drives organizational success.
Jabed Amin represents Developer Relations at Cortex.io. With over 10 years of experience in various software roles and as a developer, he has worked with hundreds of companies, delivering enterprise solutions, providing technical leadership, and contributing thought-provoking insights... Read More →
As multi-cloud architectures evolve; Kubernetes has become essential for managing containerized workloads across diverse cloud compute providers. But how does this paradigm shift extend to the AI-native application landscape?
In this keynote, Nathan Goulding of Vultr explores how Kubernetes serves as a critical abstraction layer for running containerized AI models across GPU providers while simultaneously managing application logic across CPU providers. Discover a cutting-edge, serverless cloud compute platform purpose-built for AI-native applications. This innovative approach ensures code and model portability, delivering unparalleled freedom, flexibility, and choice for developers and businesses navigating the future of AI and multi-cloud architecture
Nathan Goulding is an entrepreneurial-minded, product-focused technical leader with over 20 years of infrastructure, platform, and software as-a-service experience. As SVP, Engineering at Vultr, Nathan leads the engineering and technical product management teams. Prior to Vultr, Nathan... Read More →
AI development agents are changing enterprise software, and the infrastructure decisions platform teams make today will determine their readiness for this change.
This session will cover the agentic enterprise maturity model, covering key dimensions across: -Security, identity, and access controls. -Testing and quality assurance. -Hardware and compute resources. -People resourcing and change management.
We'll address: -Building secure infrastructure for human and AI developers. -Critical technology choices and decisions for your next 18 months. -How not to make compromises across productivity, security, and compliance. -Lessons for platform teams from early adopter
Lou is a PM at Gitpod, working with enterprise customers from some of the world's largest financial, insurance, and healthcare providers. Previously, Lou has worked across developer experience and platform teams, serving 10M+ users globally.
I see you want to hire a developer to work on platform engineering, internal developer tooling, developer experience, and the overall generally intangible but admirable goal of "making life better for devs". That’s awesome; you've got one hell of a challenge ahead of you. This role is extremely difficult to hire for. In my opinion, and in my experience, it’s been the most difficult role in the company outside of senior leadership, and the most likely to fail; if there ever was a role that burns people out, it’s this one.
Come with Hazel as we draw on her experiences building platform teams and organizations in order to talk about making this platform engineering thing a reality. In doing so, we'll end up discussing topics such as
- The hiring pipeline and interview loop - Timing, politics, and the meta strategies - Getting to zero from negative - Avoiding pitfalls
Hazel spends her days working on building out teams of humans as well as the infrastructure, systems, and tooling to make life better for others. She’s worked at a variety of companies and knows that the hardest problems to solve are the social ones. One of her favorite things is... Read More →
After releasing the Platform Engineering Maturity Model, the CNCF Platforms Working Group is now studying how companies enhance their platform maturity. One approach is treating platforms as products—viewing users as customers and ensuring the platform meets their needs.
To explore this, we conducted interviews and created a survey to gather information from various organizations. Our goal was to determine if they apply product thinking principles in their platform engineering efforts.
In this presentation, we will outline our research objectives and data collection methods. We will then share our initial findings, highlighting common strategies, challenges, and best practices in platform engineering. Attendees will learn how other companies build their platforms and how to apply these lessons to improve their own platforms.
Join us to discover our early findings and see how they can help you develop more effective, user-focused platforms in your organization.
Dominik is a Technical Product Manager at Giant Swarm and on a mission to simplify developers' lives by delivering intuitive developer platforms. He has been in the IT industry for over 9 years, starting his journey as a Full Stack Software Engineer falling in love with DevOps and... Read More →
I've spent most of my career focused on external products across startups, scaleups, and enterprises. From new product development to growth and optimization. As someone who's focused on overall business success, my focus has shifted towards helping companies develop a successful... Read More →
Do you think platform engineering is too hard? Or is it just a buzzword? Is the CNCF landscape too tricky to visualize? If you’ve been in this industry long enough, you should know that platform engineering has been around for a long time.
Most of us have been trying to build developer platforms for decades, and most of us have failed at that. That begs the questions: “What is different now?” “Why will this time be different?” and “Do we have a chance to succeed?”
We’ll take a look at the past, the present, and the future of platform engineering. We’ll see what we were doing in the past, what we did wrong, and why we failed. Further on, we’ll see what we (the industry as a whole) are doing now and, more importantly, where we might go from here.
Get ready for the hard truths and challenges you will face when trying to build a platform based on Kubernetes. Join us for a pain-infused journey filled with challenges teams will face when building platforms to enable other teams.
Mauricio works as an Open Source Software Engineer at @Diagrid, contributing to and driving initiatives for the Dapr OSS project. Mauricio also serves as a Steering Committee member for the Knative Project and Co-Leading the Knative Functions initiative. He published a book titled... Read More →
Viktor Farcic is a lead rapscallion at Upbound, a member of the CNCF Ambassadors, Google Developer Experts, CDF Ambassadors, and GitHub Stars groups, and a published author. He is a host of the YouTube channel DevOps Toolkit and a co-host of DevOps Paradox.
Building the right internal platform is only half the battle; driving adoption is the other.
This talk explores the critical, yet often overlooked, Go to Market(GTM) strategies that are required for successful platform launches. Based on their experience building and launching internal platforms, Erica and David will share practical, actionable techniques for communicating the value of your platform, engaging stakeholders and onboarding users. We'll examine how playbooks for product launches help you drive adoption of your platform.
We’ll discuss strategies for:
Platform Rollout
User Enablement
Feedback Gathering
Diving into gradual rollouts, positioning to drive platform adoption with targeted communication, training programs, and established feedback mechanisms.
By mapping these product launch techniques to platform launches, attendees will learn how to position, promote, and drive adoption of their platform as a compelling business offering.
David Stenglein is the owner of Missing Mass and a consultant with a focus on internal platforms. He has worked in engineering, consulting and product management roles at large and small companies. He has architected and built large public websites using cloud-native principles. During... Read More →
Erica is passionate about the arrow between the two boxes in the architecture diagram. How do we make that arrow easy to establish securely? And how can we observe and operate it? After over ten years in FinTech, primarily leading API Platform strategy and engineering teams, Erica... Read More →
Want to level up your engineering career? Product management and ownership skills will help you showcase the business value of IT investments and align technical solutions with company goals. Learn how modern engineering teams—regardless of size or industry—can thrive by adopting a product thinking mindset.
Join Stéphane (Cloud Engineer applying product thinking) and Cat (once engineer, now Product Manager) as they share actionable insights from their journey. You'll discover how embracing product management principles can help your team deliver more impactful results and gain greater ownership of what you build.
What you'll learn: - How to use product discovery techniques to better understand user needs - Which metrics matter most when measuring product success - Practical frameworks for identifying real problems before jumping to solutions - Tips for bringing product thinking to your engineering role
Cat is the Product Manager at Syntasso delivering Kratix, an open-source cloud-native framework for building internal platforms. She has worked in tech for over 10 years, the last 6 have been in Platform Engineering across all kinds of domains. She specialises in bringing Product... Read More →
Senior Platform Engineer, DKB – Deutsche Kreditbank
Stéphane Di Cesare is a Senior Platform Engineer in the Platform Experience team at the German online bank DKB. He is helping to increase the adoption and advocate for the value of the bank's container platform.Stéphane is focusing on bridging the gap between engineering and users... Read More →
What does it take to succeed in building an internal developer platform from scratch? Are you even ever truly starting "from scratch"? Join our panel of industry experts as they explore the messy, exhilarating, and sometimes frustrating early stages of IDP adoption in a playful, clickbait-style format.
We’ll tackle provocative topics like: * 5 Common Adoption Mistakes You’re Probably Already Making * Think You're in Control? The Shocking Truth About Ready-Made Solutions You Need to Know! * Your Platform Was Doomed From the Start—Here’s Why * Life-Changing Platform-Building Tools (Including One That Will Shock You) * We Thought We Didn’t Need a Product Owner—Here’s How It Went * You Built It. They Didn’t Come
Whether you’re looking to sidestep rookie mistakes or a seasoned pro, this lively discussion will be packed with real-world insights, actionable advice, and a touch of humour that will address the questions you need to ask as you take the leap into building better platforms.
Abby is a Principal Engineer at Syntasso delivering Kratix, an open-source cloud-native framework for building internal platforms on Kubernetes. Her keen interest in supporting internal development comes from over a decade of experience in consulting and product delivery roles across... Read More →
Whitney is a CNCF Ambassador who enjoys understanding and using tools in the cloud native landscape. Creative and driven, she has created and delivered two KubeCon keynotes, a VMware Explore keynote, and countless fun, funny, and informative community conference keynotes. You can... Read More →
Leena is a Senior Engineer at Chainalysis, the Blockchain data platform. With a strong focus on reducing friction and cognitive load for Chainalysis engineers, Leena is at the coal-face of DevProd and DevEx daily. When she's not busy optimising workflows, Leena enjoys playing the... Read More →
Ana Margarita Medina is a Sr. Staff Developer Advocate, she speaks on all things SRE, DevOps, and Reliability. She is a self-taught engineer with over 14 years of experience, focusing on cloud infrastructure and reliability. She has been part of the Kubernetes Release Team since v1.25... Read More →
We often hear about the usage and benefits of Platform as a Product and Internal Developer Portals to reduce cognitive load on developers and increase velocity, but we rarely hear about the benefits to other teams.
Come listen to this talk and hear from different people and perspectives involved in NatWest Bank’s Platform as a Product journey over the last 2 years.
The Transformation Lead, the Architect/Product Owner, the Lead Engineer/Private Cloud IaaS Expert, the AWS Engineer/expert and the Partner/Supplier will be onstage talking about their individual experiences and journey. Is it a panel talk, is it a case study? Actually it’s both!
Each persona will spend a couple of minutes each talking about their own adventure before the session is opened up to audience participation in choosing which topics and questions are put to the panel to answer.
Enterprise Architect and joint Product owner for Platform as a Product initiative within the Bank, NatWest Bank
Chris Plank is a Enterprise Architect working for NatWest Bank in Edinburgh, Scotland. He has been leading a Platform as a Product initiative within the Bank over the last year looking to radically change the Banks approach to provisioning and maintaining services. Outside of work... Read More →
Sapphire is a Software Engineer at Syntasso working on the Kratix, an open-source platform framework for building composable internal developer platforms (IDPs). She made the transition from software engineering after a career in charity sector communications. She has since worked... Read More →
At StackGen, we found ourselves asking, "Are we actually getting better at delivering software?" With a growing team and mounting complexity, we turned to DORA metrics for clarity—and what a ride it’s been! In this talk, we’ll take you behind the scenes of how we used deployment frequency, lead time for changes, mean time to recovery, and change failure rate to level up our engineering game.
Expect a blend of candid tales, technical tricks, and cultural ah-ha moments as we share the highs, lows, and lessons learned. From team skeptics to data enthusiasts, everyone walked away with something—and you will too. Whether you’re DORA-curious or already charting metrics, you’ll leave with actionable strategies to measure and improve performance in your organization.
If you’re ready to move from gut feelings to data-driven confidence, join us for a fresh take on turning DORA metrics into meaningful change.
Cesar Rodriguez is VP of Engineering at appCD. In the past, he has worked on architecting, developing, and security cloud-native environments as a Security Engineer and Architect. His expertise extends to building cloud security tools, notably contributing to the open-source community... Read More →
Danielle Cook has worked in the cloud native industry since 2016 helping organizations adopt the technologies that make cloud native enterprise ready. She co-authored and launched the CNCF Cloud Native Maturity Model in 2021, is a co-chair of the CNCF Cartografos Working Group and... Read More →
Developers often spend hours configuring Kubernetes manifests, wrestling with CI/CD pipelines, or implementing the right network policy. Platforms help solve this by providing abstractions—simple interfaces that hide complexity. But here’s the challenge: the more we abstract, the more rigid our platforms become.
When teams need to deploy slightly differently, they either fight the platform or work around it. This is the Abstraction Debt Trap, where yesterday’s simplification becomes today’s bottleneck.
In this talk, I’ll introduce the concept of Abstraction Elasticity, a measurable way to build platform capabilities that bend without breaking. I’ll also show ways to implement composable abstractions, build APIs that adapt to team maturity, and create flexible guardrails.
Using examples and code, I’ll show you how to measure your platform’s abstraction health, implement adaptable interfaces, and build platforms that grow with your teams and not restrict them.
Sr Developer Advocate | CNCF Ambassador, InfraCloud Technologies
Manual tester turned developer advocate. I talk about Cloud Native, Kubernetes & DevOps to help others adopt cloud native. I also create content – blog posts, webinars – & host Twitter spaces and strongly believe in collaborative learning and growth. In addition, I'm also a... Read More →
Train companies know the importance of platforms and infrastructure, but what do we focus on while building platform services for critical systems that so many people rely on every day?
At BaneNOR, we have all the bells and whistles, and platforms of all sorts. Application, data, integration, and everything from state of the art technology, to legacy systems. How this is structured is a continuous work in progress and evolves in tandem with what the community discovers. Every day try to give developers a good place to run applications, while keeping stakeholders up to date, while keeping everything secure and compliant.
In this presentation we want to go through some of our strategic technical and sociotechnical choices, as well as pain points, pitfalls and low-hanging fruits. All on board the Platform Engineering express train!
Roberth is a self-proclaimed "cloud automator", and works primarily with Platform Engineering, DevOps and Cloud Native technology. Microsoft Azure MVP, CNCF Ambassador, and previously HashiCorp Ambassador. Additionally, he is active in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation as co-chair... Read More →
Principal Cloud Enterprise Architect, Sopra Steria
Azure Cloud architect and C# developer with a passion for integration and automation. But wait, it's more! Passion does not only have to be in tech! There is also a burning passion for neurodiversity and diversity in tech, across ages, genders, identities, etc... Loves integration... Read More →
Lemonade is one of the world's top-rated insurance companies, succeeding in a tough industry with well-established players.
As Lemonade scaled its engineering organization, the team adopted a highly distributed, services-oriented architecture to support rapid growth. While Kubernetes played a central role in this evolution, the shift also brought challenges—most notably, the disparity between Docker Compose-based local development environments and Kubernetes-based production environments.
In this session, Lemonade engineers will share their hands-on experience building and scaling t-env, Lemonade's internal platform powered by Kubernetes, Okteto, Grafana, and other open-source technologies. Attendees will learn why Lemonade invested in a platform, key lessons from addressing real-world challenges, the benefits of running both development and production environments in Kubernetes, and how a small platform team achieves all this while keeping maintenance costs surprisingly low.
Ramiro Berrelleza is one of the founders of Okteto. He has spent most of his career (and his free time) building cloud services and developer tools. Before starting Okteto, Ramiro was an Architect at Atlassian and a Software Engineer at Microsoft Azure. Originally from Mexico, he... Read More →
Nir Gilboa is a Senior Engineer on Lemonade's Cloud Infrastructure team, with experience as a Team Lead on one of Lemonade's product teams. Before Lemonade, Nir worked as a Software Engineer at Intel on an internal cloud platform. Nir loves to talk about developer experience, productivity... Read More →
Imagine orchestrating the technological backbone for 650 engineers working across various products- all with a team smaller than a typical startup’s founding team. This is not just their challenge; it’s their daily reality.
This talk will describe how a team of three platform engineers navigated regulatory landscapes, operational hurdles, and demanding change management requirements to manage 1,000 Kubernetes clusters for a private Swiss bank. Their approach: deploying a platform solely with CNCF components, custom operators, and a homemade managed Kubernetes service.
Top achievement? They can now update all clusters within a two-day window.
The session will share their journey, focusing on the emotional highs and lows that came with such a monumental challenge. From the initial overwhelming scope to the satisfaction of system-wide automation, you will learn how they managed not just technology but also the human emotions involved in transforming pressure into productivity.
I am Marcy, a DevOps engineer and Product Owner with a diverse and dynamic background. I began my career as a front-end dev, specializing in UX research, before transitioning into a deep back-end role, managing Kubernetes platform. This unique path, from user-facing design to the... Read More →
I’m Stéphane, an engineer with a focus on depth and detail. My varied experiences have helped me become a steady presence in our team, where I aim to thoughtfully explore possibilities and contribute to decisions that blend innovation with wisdom. In my role as the Product Manager... Read More →
Your CEO wants AI and they want it now. They want it now BUT you can’t just hand over all your confidential data to a Cloud or SaaS provider. Your CISO is losing sleep.
What options do you have to keep your CEO, your developers and security happy?
We’ll tell the story of how we set up an internal development platform (IDP) AROUND a self-hosted LLM on Kubernetes. From the outset our goal was to use Platform Engineering practices, so our engineers could benefit from "paved paths" for:
- Knowledge integrations (commonly known as RAG) - API integrations, so you can connect your LLM to business applications - Quality assurance tooling such as the LLM-as-a-judge pattern
This will be a live demo of how to stand up an entire IDP for GenAI apps that you can replicate yourself using open source tools. During the demo we’ll share the lessons learned along the way and how we ended up with the solution we use in production today.
With over a decade of experience in technology transformation Hannah has always advocated for the human impact of change. Hannah now works as an independent adviser and consultant at the intersection of Platform Engineering, Security and AI. As founder of AI for the rest of us... Read More →
Spotify operates at a scale where billions of requests and countless user experiences depend on the seamless performance of its backend infrastructure. This talk delves into Spotify's journey toward a "fleet-first" mindset, an evolution designed to simplify and enhance the management of its vast and diverse software fleet. We’ll explore the principles behind Spotify’s shift to declarative infrastructure, which allows teams to define the desired state of their services with clarity and consistency, minimizing operational complexity. Additionally, we'll examine the strategies employed for fleet-wide refactoring, enabling Spotify to implement large-scale changes across its infrastructure with minimal disruption. Learn how Spotify leverages automated pipelines, standardized tooling, and organizational alignment to transform challenges into opportunities for innovation.
Sanjana is working on Fleet Management and Version Control Systems. She's passionate about reducing fragmentation in tech ecosystems, building innovative solutions for developers, and collaborating with diverse and talented teams. She helped expand the Fleet Management program at... Read More →
Delivering platforms as products is no easy feat—it’s like assembling a set with missing instructions and an endless pile of YAML bricks that don’t quite click together.
Two enthusiastic engineers from the LEGO Group share their story of building and leading Kubernetes-based platform teams—platforms that provide the foundational studs that keep the factories running smoothly and power cloud services supporting one of the world’s most cherished brands.
In this talk, you will learn how groups of platforms collaborated to deliver a coherent user experience via APIs and Baseplate—an internal development portal. You’ll discover how standardized telemetry enables end-users’ operations and how empathy and collaboration enables engineers to deliver great products.
Great platforms are like great LEGO builds: with the right bag of golden bricks that fit together in a system, you can enable users’ creativity and curiosity, letting them dream big and build even bigger.
Mads is a Lead Engineer for the Edge Platform Team at the LEGO Group and KCD Denmark organizer. He has been building Kubernetes based platforms at several companies and loves to focus the discussion away from the tech, and over to the human aspects of building and operating platforms... Read More →
"Fall in love with the people and their problems, not the solution." Christian have a background in automating tedious task away teams and have worked dedicated in the CI/CD space since 2007. He is convinced that good human relations and communication is the key to unlocking the... Read More →
Most Internal Developer Platforms fail not because of technical limitations, but because they're built like infrastructure projects rather than products developers want to use. Drawing from our combined experience of implementing platforms across enterprises and different use cases, this talk provides practical insights into designing platforms that create real value. We'll explore why traditional infrastructure-first thinking leads to low adoption and how a product mindset transforms platform success. You'll learn how to identify actual developer needs, implement the right level of abstraction, and create platforms that evolve with your organization. Highlighting practical patterns for managing technical debt, implementing effective self-service capabilities, and measuring platform success through meaningful metrics will round up the session. You'll leave with concrete strategies for building platforms that developers choose to use rather than are forced to adopt.
Max is Founder and Cloud Native Advisor at Liquid Reply based in Munich. His focus is on building cloud-native solutions on/with Kubernetes and platform engineering to simplify the current challenges of complex target environments. He is Co-Chair of the CNCF Environmental Sustainability... Read More →
Hilliary is an autodidact and start-up veteran who has frequently learned and applied technologies to get a job done. She’s had her hand in every part of the application delivery process, honing in her skills originally as a QE engineer. Hilliary is an IT polyglot able to talk the... Read More →
Better developer experience. Release faster. Save costs. Cuts time to market.
We have heard it all. Is it really true?
Are purchase decisions (or green-lighting) made based on these promises? What makes an organization commit to Platform Engineering? Let's find out.
This lightning talk is about talking to a room full of engineers about the non-technical aspects of Platform Engineering, particularly sales. In my (limited) experience, engineers spectacularly fail to understand certain things beyond the programming realm, and sales is one of them.
Dissecting some sales techniques and applying them to platform projects, both internal and external, will help engineering teams justify platform efforts better. The few techniques highlighted in this talk will aid in bringing about a shared understanding of why a platform is needed and how best to communicate the impact of using one.
Ram Iyengar is an engineer by practice and an educator at heart. He was (cf) pushed into technology evangelism along his journey as a developer and hasn’t looked back since! He enjoys helping engineering teams around the world discover new and creative ways to work. He is a proponent... Read More →
Are you tired of waiting for DevOps to provision complex AWS, GCP, or Azure stacks? No more! At MyHeritage, we tackled this pain by creating a self-service platform that empowers developers to provision resources independently, freeing DevOps for more meaningful work. We’ll reveal how our Golden Path approach streamlines resource creation, enabling developers to focus on coding and solving business challenges instead of wrestling with infrastructure.
We’ll showcase pre-configured recipes that effortlessly provision cloud resources while embedding organizational standards, defaults, and compliance checks. Developers use high-level code to customize IaC recipes to their needs. GitOps then converts this code into OpenTofu, with IAM policies and configurations prepared by the platform team, and delivers it to production. Join us to discover how this approach eliminates delays and boosts cloud productivity.
Ofir leads the BE infrastructure at MyHeritage, and manages ApacheKafkaIL meetup group, the largest Kafka community worldwide (over 2000 members). Ofir writes and speaks about topics he's passionate about, such as engineering leadership and distributed systems. Link In Bio: https://linktr.ee/ofirsharony... Read More →
With platform-as-a-product becoming more and more popular, platform teams realize that marketing and sales are part of the job. In this talk I'll share some hands-on tips on how to market your platform internally without a designated budget for it. Leverage free tools, creative ideas and the power of communities to drive adoption, spread the word and accompany the change in operating model.
Christina Kraus is Co-Founder of meshcloud, a platform engineering company enabling enterprises to build digital products faster with its meshStack platform. She holds degrees in Computer science and Business and is Chairwoman of the board for the Working Group on Cloud Services and... Read More →
Ever pushed a container to prod only to discover it had more CVEs than your morning coffee had beans? That was us - averaging 90+ critical vulnerabilities per week across 980 container images, with patch cycles slower than Windows XP updates. Worse? Our traditional scanning tools were flagging issues after images hit production, turning our registry into a vulnerability museum.
Join this lightening talk where Prerit will talk about how they built a game-changing platform that leverages Copa for real-time vulnerability scanning and hot-patching. Now they scan 100+ images daily, applying patches within 180 seconds of CVE detection, and stopping vulnerable containers before they even dream of production. The kicker? They reduced our vulnerability response time from 5 hours to under 5 minutes, while maintaining 99.99% deployment success rate.
Prerit is working as a Software Architect, directing his expertise towards harnessing Cloud Native Technologies to design resilient architectures that can seamlessly scale in the future, all while prioritizing technical cost, security, availability and end-user experience. As the... Read More →
Platform engineering goes beyond building internal tools—it’s about creating a culture that inspires collaboration, excitement, and a sense of ownership. This panel will explore how fostering these elements across teams accelerates platform adoption and drives impactful outcomes like innovation, stability, and long-term growth. Panelists will share real-world strategies for engaging engineers, gathering actionable feedback, and building alignment between platform teams and users. Whether you are starting fresh or scaling an established platform, join us to discover how community-driven enthusiasm can break down silos, spark advocacy, and create platforms that truly deliver value.
Matteo is a CNCF Ambassador and Cloud Native aficionado, a former startup CTO, DevRel and current Solution Engineer. Kubernetes open source contributor, part of the release team since v.1.31, Comms Release Lead for v.1.32 and Release Lead Shadow for v.1.33Hacker, builder and problem... Read More →
William is a CNCF Ambassador and currently working at Mirantis as a Consulting Architect. Focused in helping customers designing and building, and running their Internal Developer Platforms. He wore many hats, in Engineering, Pre-Post sales, Product Owner and Consulting. from HPC... Read More →
Cortney is a Developer Advocate at Kubeshop and a co-organizer of the CNCF Bilbao Community. Initially, a non-techie turned tech lover, she began her career as employee number 7 at a DevSecOps startup (acquired by DataDog) and wrote the newsletter and other content for the Data on... Read More →
Bart Farrell is a CNCF Ambassador and Freelance Content Creator, event host, and community consultant. He brings creativity and passion to everything he does, whether it's rapping about Kubernetes or producing creative videos to bring technical concepts to life. Bart engages with... Read More →
Kelly Revenaugh is the Developer Relations lead at Kubeshop, an open source accelerator building tools for developers and testers in the Kubernetes & cloud native space. She enjoys bringing members of the Cloud Native community together by organizing events such as Kubernetes Community... Read More →
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.
