Hi all. I'm a Devops engineer/team lead at crayon.com for a team of 7 engineers, managing multiple cloud based customers. The team and I also do cloud migrations for our customers.

Hello, I'm Shuayb Popoola living in the UK, a Cloud DevOps Engineering Student at Udacity NanoDegree, with hands-on on different DevOps projects. I have 4years of Software Engineering background. Looking forward to learn more about IDP and connecting with my future DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering Manager/Team Lead, Open for Hiring.

Hi all , I'm Ram from India. I am software developer in Coinswitch for last 4 years. looking forward to learn from you all

Hi,all , I’m Barry from Taiwan 🇹🇼. I am Site Reliability Engineer in KKStream for 3 years. Happy to be part of this community!

Hi all, I am Ikhsan from Indonesia 🇮🇩, working as Platform Eng. in eFishery.

Hey! 👋 Cloud Architect and AWS Engineer at Sopra Steria, Norway. I do a lot of architecture planning and implementation for clients, and help companies migrate to a SRE and modern development world.

Hello everyone ! I just joined this group! I love being able to join in continuing to share and expand the Platform engineering culture and methodology! I’ll tell you a little about myself, I’m Juanjo Behrend, current Head of Infra and Platform of a fintech startup from LATAM. Leading the Devops, SRE, Platform, IT operations, Data engineer, BI and Fraud Prevention teams. With more than 15 years of experience since I founded my own company, I worked in 3 large startups in Latin America, I worked in large corporations such as IBM and Telefónica, and leading companies in my country. On the other hand, I am a professor at the Technological University of Uruguay and at 2 academies. In the last few years, I specialized in the fintech and cloud aws field above all. We built our one Internal Developer Platform using Backstage + AWS Service Catalog + Cloudformation , and lot’s of api and plugins ! Using Kubernetes, New Relic , Datalake connection to athena etc. Anyone who wants to chat or who sees that they can collaborate let me know!

Hey folks 👋, I’ve functioned in various roles in my career, with my most recent role being in Infrastructure Engineering. Glad to finally find an active Slack community for platform engineering.

Greetings to everyone 🙂 Myself Nishkarsh - Cloud Engineer and Open Source enthusiast working as the Principal Evangelist at StatusNeo.

Greetings All, I’m Derek, I have been playing around in the cloud full time for about 5 years now, in roles from Cloud Engineer to Architect. Glad to have found the Platform Engineering group and am hopeful to make a solid contribution here and more importantly, learn from all of you. Cheers Derek

Anyone from Indianapolis area?

Hi everyone. I am a Platform Engineering Lead at CGI.com working with a single financial client. We have automated the deployment of Cloud provisioning using Terraform/Packer/Ansible. We are now in the process of automating the deployment and management of the on-premise infrastructure using the same tooling. Happy to be part of this community.

Hello everyone! I am Bideep, based out of Dallas, Texas, US. I am a Principal Engineer and Cloud Architect at SAP. I have had the opportunity to work on cloud technologies over the last few years and built multiple platforms around Cloud Foundation, Containers & Microservices, DevSecOps, and Serverless. Would love to connect via the below channels as well - https://www.linkedin.com/in/bideep/, https://twitter.com/bbideep, https://bbideep.medium.com/

Hey everyone 👋 I'm felix, based in Berlin and working as a system/cloud/devops/whatever engineer for that last 10 years. Doing lots of things with Kubernetes, Terraform, Golang and other tools. Just finished my experiment in working a permanent role at Tesla and happy to go back to consulting/freelancing now. Looking forward to some technical discussions here and maybe get the chance to work together with someone

Hi everyone!! I am Uma Shankar, based in the Netherlands and working as a cloud/devops/IAC engineer. Work mainly with AWS, VMware, Terraform, Kubernetes, Tinkerbell. Would like to connect with fellow platform engineers. https://www.linkedin.com/in/uma-shankar-choubey/

Hey everyone, i am Stefan from Frankfurt in Germany 👋 I am Tech Lead for Software Engineering at meshcloud. I am a Full Stack Developer with focus on Kotlin, Spring Boot and Angular. We are developing a Cloud Foundation Platform that helps building and operating a cloud foundation. I am looking forward to some great discussions and insights on the challenges platform engineers face when building up landing zones for cloud platforms and operating cloud platforms.

Hey everyone, I am Mostafa from Stockholm (Sweden). I am a Sr. SWE at Grafana Labs working on the k6 backend (and also the security lead). My area of expertise is SWE, security and reliability engineering. I am a co-founder of a Linux Users Group called KarajLUG and also co-organize GDG Cloud Stockholm together with Mariana and Zahra. I am a FOSS advocate and usually contribute to FOSS projects. You can find me here: • https://github.com/mostafa • https://www.linkedin.com/in/mostafa-moradian/ • https://twitter.com/MosiMoradian I'd be happy to connect.

Hi I am Darek from Poland, ex- VP of Engineering at Nordcloud, where I was responsible for building whole SaaS offering (klarity.nordcloud.com). My area of expertise is building digital products on modern technology platforms. I came here because I strongly believe that platform engineering practices can bring new revolution in delivery of software in all companies. I know public cloud, technology strategy, scaling engineering and distributed systems.

Greetings 👋!! My name is Alfredo Cambera, based in Mexico City 🇲🇽 and I’m the Squad Lead of Environments at Bitso. Working mainly with AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Python. I’m looking forward to connect with fellow platform engineers https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesusalfredocambera/

Hi, I'm Ben from the San Francisco Bay Area in 🇺🇸 . I'm a Product Manager at MURAL focused on Enterprise Security. Previously I was a Platform PM at Sendoso and Zendesk. Looking forward to connecting with other Platform people! Here is my LI profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benrohrs/

Hello everybody, My name is Huseyin from Berlin/Germany. I’m the head of engineering for one vertical of Trendyol as well as working closely with platform teams. Before here I worked for Delivery Hero and I was leading platform engineering teams for Q-Commerce side of the company. Looking forward to connecting and discussing on top of platform engineering topics with you. http://linkedin.com/in/hyurtseven/

Hey everyone 👋 My name is Jelle, currently based in Cologne, Germany and I am a Product Manager at meshcloud. We are continuously building our cloud foundation platform SaaS that helps central cloud platform teams at larger organizations accelerate their journey into the cloud. I hope to engage with you and learn a lot more about the problems that platform engineers have. I’m very much looking forward being a part of this community ✌️

Hi folks! I’m Jared from NYC, currently running Platform Eng (more backend services platform than IDP in this case) at Codecademy. I’m starting a new gig at SiriusXM in August, where I’ll also be leading the Platform org (actual Platform in this case) there. I’ve got a lot to learn in the space since my career has been with Platform-adjacent software engineering teams rather than being responsible for the platform itself, so I’m looking forward to learning from everyone here!

Hi everyone. I am Ankit Kumar from Noida/India, I am in the developer experience and platform engineering team at Weave. We are building internal tools and handling weave platform using golang and other cloud-native tools. I am excited to be here and learn from you all. Here is my LinkedIn profile: https://linkedin.com/in/jinxankit

👋 Yello everyone! I’m Adrien, currently living in Barcelona 🇪🇸 and working on building the Platform for Manomano, an ecommerce website. Looking forward to exchange with you as well as meeting up if there’s events around! Cheers 🎉

Hi folks, My name is Thiago but everybody knows me as Fortunato! I’m SRE at Pismo 🇧🇷. We were born in the cloud and now we’re building a lot of tenants using a multi-region architecture for our clients spread in the world. I’m very excited to be here! Here is my LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thiagolsfortunato/ !

hey folks - I'm david raistrick. I'm a professional mistake avoider and strategic advisor. I help growth stage companies solve software delivery problems (and the rest of devops). I built my first platform, and platform team, in 2009 on AWS. shipped ~13 products with it in 4 years. (oh, and it was multi-region, too... )

I'm Troy from Virginia, USA. I run the DevSecOps and Product Security teams with my current org. We are relatively mature in our DevOps culture and cloud transformation and are looking to to develop maturity and consistency in several areas though the adoption of Platform Engineering. Looking forward to sharing our adventure with the fine members here.

Hi everyone - I'm Lars, based in San Francisco, and one of the co-founders at Resoto, a cloud asset inventory - an open source alternative to Google Cloud Asset Inventory and AWS Systems Manager. I joined this channel because I've observed a distinct shift to "Platform Teams" in the conversations that we're having with our community members, away from "SRE Teams". I spill my wisdom on LinkedIn and am constantly looking for guests on our "Some Engineering Podcast"!

Nice to see this international group forming, lots of useful info and perspective. I'm an infrastructure engineer in Portland, Oregon. I've just started a fully-remote role with a Bellevue, Washington startup called SeekOut, who does HR-oriented software with some success. Really good people all around, which is a relief after my last company! I'm at https://www.linkedin.com/in/caguayo/ in real life, at least professionally.