Hello group. I am currently based in Berkeley California engineering manager for CD IDP team at Anaplan. Would love to connect with the community to learn/ share trends and best practices from you all. 👋🏽

Welcome to Platform Engineering, everyone! I see that a lot of you have linked your LinkedIn profiles in this channel, so I thought I would consolidate and pin one thread to the top of the channel. 🙂 Be sure to drop yours here, too 👇

Hey Platform Engineering — excited to be here I'm an entrepreneur, advisor, and author of Unlearn, and Lean Enterprise Recently cofounded Nobody Studios a venture studio with the mission to launch 100 companies over the next 5 years Keen to; • work with people on new company ideas • help those looking for an intellectual off ramp for companies they want to create yet don't have the capacity to work on full-time Currently in San Francisco, moving to Manila. Remote-first for life, and making sure I see and experience the entire world with in the time I get 🌍

👋 Hello, I am ( eric || elik ) an fanatic-dev, operating a high available baby-cloud-cluster in my home-office. Why? Why not! 🐳 🦾

Hi all, Jordi from Weaveworks here from London, UK. Nice to meet y’all 👋🏻

Hello friends! Thanks for including me. I'm Leon, SVP of Data at a startup in LA called Bambee, focused on providing a Human-Resources Manager as a service to small businesses in the US. I came here by way of this fantastic article https://platformengineering.org/what-is-platform-engineering And would love to speak with someone that feels particularly successful at implementing platform engineering teams at their companies. I have some very basic, pedestrian questions I need help answering for my organization: 1. What differentiates platform work from feature work? 2. Why can't the feature engineers "just do the foundational work" (instinctively I know why, but not well enough to argue for it) 3. How do we measure and report on the value of a "platform engineering" team? 4. How do we justify how many engineers should be on the platform team? I will gladly purchase coffee for anyone willing to walk me through these silly questions 😄 Thank you in advance! Leon

Hi all, I’m working at https://DataHawk.co, as the head of backend and data engineering, we are fully hosted on Azure, and looking for a better automation platform and self serve devops ! Nice to meet you all.

Hi 👋 I'm a User Researcher at Humanitec & excited to get in touch with the community here. Have a great start into the weekend everyone 🙂

Hi everyone! I’m Naz, a platform engineer at eduMe. I’ve been here for a few months and am new to this. so I’m delighted to find a community to learn from others who are in a similar position and hopefully to help others too! I am based in London and the weather is cloudy and gloomy right now 😕

Hey all, I’m a team lead supporting a software and data engineering team responsible for the B2C Data Platform for the largest media enterprise in Finland, Sanoma Media Finland. I’m semi-technical (3* AWS associate certs, but not a programmer). I have a passion for product management, keen interest in the way that public cloud and platform technologies change our current and future lives. I’m active on the tech related networks and an avid learner. Let’s connect on LinkedIn if you have any similar interests http://linkedin.com/in/niko-kotiniemi And I’m looking to hire 1 senior data engineer and 1 data engineer, to work on the ^Data Platform, big data, in Helsinki Finland. Cheers!

hi! I’m Jose, Staff SRE @ Netlify 👋

:blob-waver: Software Engineer at Adobe, currently doing "platform" things 😅

Hi Platformers. I’m Dan from Toronto, Canada. I lead a DevOps team within a platform group at a SaaS fintech. We are just kicking off a major project to migrate from ECS to Kubernetes and we’re using Argo. @Luca Galante found me on Twitter and suggested I join. I am not forever grateful. Super excited to be here!!!

Hey everyone! I'm Will and I build stuff. Mainly for early stage tech startups in the healthcare, fitness, and media space. Because startups are how startups are, I do full stack work, data, and of course: devops and infrastructure work. I'm also one of the co-hosts of the Adventures in DevOps podcast and run the DevOps for Developers YouTube channel. Looking forward to contributing and learning from the community here!

Hi everyone! I’m Nigel and I spend most of my time helping big companies try to do platform engineering for both “heritage”, cloud-ish, and cloud-native environments. I work at Puppet, and have been an author of the State of DevOps Report for the last decade. Really thrilled to see how this community has been taking off!

Hi All 👋 , I'm Sr. Devops Platform Engineer at blinkit (formerly grofers), a quick commerce platform for instant grocery delivery in India. My primary responsibilities are taking care of CICD and Dev Productivity domains and build internal tools and feature as platform capabilities for the same. Other than CICD and Devex, I also contribute to Kubernetes and Cloud Platform initiatives at blinkit. Always curious to explore, learn, build and contribute - and that is why I'm here 🙂 .

Hey Platformers, I'm Chris, cofounder at Common Fate. I'm originally from Australia but currently living in London (I'm quite new here so would love to grab a coffee if anyone here is also in town!). I've been working in cloud for the last 6 years or so and have owned the DevOps/platform aspects of things in most of my teams. I'm currently working on open source tools to make cloud access easier like Granted. Would love to hear how folks are managing breakglass access workflows for incident response within their platforms. Very keen to contribute to the community and learn from you all!

hey everybody, i’m tyler. Previously worked on a DoD software factory project, currently involved with the beginning stages of a military department cloud migration (very tedious). Living in Austin, Texas and looking forward to linking up with yall and building some cool stuff!

Hey everyone, I'm Jessica, and I lead the product management team for the Platform tribe at HelloFresh. Building internal developer products that aren't crap is a passion of mine. I've been in the platform space a few years, very excited to see all the buzz around the topic :D

Hi hi! I'm Stefan, Principal SRE at Achievers. I've spoken to the Platform Engineering group before regarding our self-service microservice tooling using gitops. I thought I would join the slack and see what others are doing. Here are a few links incase you are interested https://achievers.engineering/enter-the-abattoir-ee5e2019f0b3 https://humanitec.com/blog/how-achievers-improved-developer-experience-with-gitops-platform (P.S love to see others from Toronto!)

hello 👋 thx for inviting me in, Im Yacine, software engineer at Future PLC; Im really interested in learning from you guys so I stop spamming my SRE team on a daily basis ^^

Hello everyone, I'm Chris Tomkins, Lead Developer Advocate at Project Calico/Tigera. I spoke at the meet-up last night 👋

Hi everyone. I'm a software engineer who recently accepted a Platform Engineer role. I'm here to learn from other people's experiences, as well as share my perspectives and lessons learned as someone growing into the role.

Hi there! I'm a Platform PM at Auth0 working on cloud agnostic IaC based single and multi subscriber deployments on Azure and AWS. Hope to network and learn something new from this group 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻

Hi. My name is Mikhail, and I’m a platform engineer at Livi — a “call a doctor” app. I helped build another healthcare startup from Germany called Caspar-Health as a software developer, and now I’m helping Livi improve their infrastructure. As you can see, I’m interested in being involved with social impact projects, and here, I am looking forward to interesting connections and exchange of experience.

Hi, My name is Darren. I am a platform engineer for Capgemini - working on Kubernetes/OpenShift, Ansible, clouds (aws, azure, gcp), Linux, containers, microservices etc.. . I work on varying projects sizes. I came across this channel on a LinkedIn comment by @Chris Tomkins

Hey, Ahnberg here from Netnod (ex-Spotify)! Netnod is, amongst other things, an Internet Exchange where we focus on the Nordics, we also offer services in the DNS space as well as Time & Frequency (we’re part of providing the official swedish time, we got atomic clocks in our bunkers!) and as a service for the greater Internet we’re running the I-root server for DNS. I’m working as Head of Architecture & Development running a team of SRE and developers, meaning I mostly prioritise growth of people and my team. Other than that I spend my time thinking about our developer experience and platforms. I am very passionate about security so that is always a red thread through all that I do. Recent projects, to name a few, is improving our infrastructure-as-code stuff where we’re using CI/CD pipelines in Gitlab, terraform towards our on-prem proxmox as well as stuff in Google Cloud. A lot of k8s, both using GKE as well as separate installations in GCP as well as on-prem. Running a mix of puppet and ansible for various tasks. Lots of focus on migrating our observability into ELK and prometheus/grafana, and improving our alerting by thinking about how we can leverage features of Pagerduty. A noteworthy thing on my spare time is that I still try to help keep IRC running in the world.

Good day all! I am a solutions architect and engineer at RackN. We build an infrastructure automation platform. Excited to bump in to this site - looks like a great learning resource for others platform engineering efforts, challenges, and hopefully triumphs!

Hi all, greetings from Copenhagen, Denmark. I’m a part of the Platform Engineering at ZeroNorth, where I’m “leading’ the team. ZeroNorth is a software company, building a one-stop-shop for seaborn trade companies with the mission to make global trade green. We are running a centralised platform engineering team.