Hey everyone, I’m a platform engineer with 20 years of software engineering experience. I’ve been working to start my own consulting business focused specifically on helping companies build out their IDPs. I truly love this work and I believe that many companies could benefit from a well planned and designed platform and team. Please reach out if you are trying to navigate yourself through this journey.

Hi folks 👋🏻 !!! I'm Platform Product Manager in an HealthTech startup and was previously API Platform Product Manager in the energy sector. We are creating our IDP and would be happy to exchange all Platform culture/mindset with you guys!

Hi everyone 🙂 I’m a Platform Engineer at Codurance, currently supporting a client that are building an employee management application hosted on physical servers in their datacentre, but in a cloud native architecture, so that when a cloud provider opens a region in their country, they hope to migrate it into the cloud

Hello everyone. Nice to be here. I am the practice lead for Modern-App platforms at ITQ, a consultancy and major VMware partner in the Netherlands. I help our customers build modern-app platforms using VMware's Tanzu product suite. If anyone else here is using that toolset, I would be interested to know you. Our ambition is to eventually deliver 'turnkey' container platforms or full IDP 'solutions' to customers, either based on VMware tooling, or complete open-source. So naturally I take a broad interest in tooling, practices, and just where everyone is headed 🙂 I come from an Infra background, having focused mostly on Storage and VMware stuff, been shifting into cloud-native and k8s for the past 3 years now. I am still very much in learning-mode 😛

Hello folks, I'm a curious Red Hat Openstack / Openshift consultant. Here to see what's append. Looking forward to talk with you

Hey, all 👋 I am a freelance software engineer with over 10 years of experience in Development and Operations. Node.js backend development, owning two popular libraries.. Trying to reduce complexities for my clients applying DevOps methodologies. Spent a bit of time in a Kubernetes world, but lately I'm dekubernetesing it on a few projects (Either AWS EC2 ASG or Docker Swarm) to ease my customers' lives a bit and to make them happy. I'm passionate about software architecture. Feel free to shoot me a message if you need help organizing tech at your startup! https://www.mariokozjak.com/about https://github.com/elpheria/rpc-websockets (powering the Solana js world and a huge amounts of Web 3 projects) https://github.com/mkozjak/node-telnet-client (tackling TCP all around the world!) 🎉

Hello everybody! 👋 I’m Arthur, Paris-based SRE 🇫🇷 Most of my work revolves around developer productivity, so I have been looking more and more into internal developer platforms. Needless to say how happy I am to have found this community! In my free time I maintain a couple open source tools. Have a look at my GitHub if you are interested. Looking forward to all of us sharing insights here 💪

Hello :blob-waver: I’m Abhijit. Working as a Platform Tech lead for a media organisation in Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺. I’ve been a backend developer for more than a decade, and have developed using languages such as C/C++, Java & Python. Of late our organisation has made strides towards adopting Platform Engineering approach since we are pretty much cloud native and use a microservices driven design approach. I hope to learn and understand much more about it out here.

Hi everyone 👋 I’m Kevin, Infrastructure Engineer at Zweitag, a digital agency in Münster, Germany. I’m quite happy to have found this community, since I’m currently planning and implementing a IDP for our developers. We tried to launch a product as well (SetOps), which provides a really simple way of managing and deploying software to your own AWS account. Although we use in in production for Zweitag and run around 100 containers on it, we were not able to create enough buzz externally to get people onto the platform. Now I’m evaluating if I will continue developing SetOps for us internally or switch to another solution. The main challenge: we only have 1-2 people working on providing the platform. Looking at a solution including Kubernetes, Crossplane, Backstage, ArgoCD, etc. I’m wondering if this is feasible to do. Looking forward to be part of this community and to exchange Ideas 🙂

Hello Everyone, I run Platform Operations at a 50 person sports tech startup. We're building capabilities for our java/Python services (compute+db) for autoscaling using AWS services. I'm always curious to know what the community is doing to build Dev self-service capabilities for Devs to manage platforms (reliability, observability, security at scale). Happy to share experiences with Amazon aurora serverless v2, Bitbucket+BitOps for CI/CD, Newrelic and SOC2 compliance. Thank you.

Hello, everyone. My name is Oleg and I'm ... don't really know who I am at this moment. But it looks like I do some very similar to IDP things in my daily work. At my last work I created several Jenkins tasks for my coworkers from different teams (Unix, Windows, Enterprise) for quick and simplified deployments in Openstack and Openshift. Those tasks look like "give me two windows, one linux, one virtual network between them, two services with FTP and LDAP. etc", simple to run/simple to use. Currently I develop my Jenkins/JTE (jenkins template engine) libraries as an uniform tool for deploying ... everything. Yes, I consider such tools as products and my coworkers as clients. Even more, I want to discuss such things as "autowiring" between different services, because it's very important for effective IDP using.

Hey everyone, I'm currently the sole DevOps engineer for a small software company. Currently we're failing at devops so I'm looking for new ideas on how I can automate myself out of a job and increase our developers’ productivity.

Oops will use this channel instead. Hi everyone, Celest from Tokyo. Building CDN for a year or so and interested in Cloud Native best practices. Looking forward!

Hello people, I am part of Vajro which is an e-commerce MADP startup.Started as an iOS developer 5yrs ago and now being part the platform team in the organisation. I’ve come across this community through some article and glad to be part of this to learn and share the platform engineering techniques 🙂

Hey everyone. My name is Adnan and I am a DevOps Engineer at a European IT Solutions Provider. I am ecstatic to have found this community as I would love to learn more about IDPs. Looking forward to be part of the community and learn a lot 🙂

Hi Everyone, Sandy here from Honeycomb.io - Excited to be here and hello from London 👋 Interested in all things Observability.

Hello!! It’s Rashid from Codurance. I work as a Platform Engineer. My projects mainly involve Terraform, ArgoCD, Gitlab-CI, AWS, Azure, scripting, Linux and Kubernetes. Initially, years ago, I was working on hardware-related projects, building racks and supporting the systems. I have transitioned to the cloud and am not thinking of returning to hardware. I am looking forward to being part of this community! A big hello to my work colleagues from Codurance, @Mark Hughes and @Ralph Tatt!!!

Hello everyone 👋, I'm Lionel from Montpellier (France) I'm the Platform Engineering Manager of PhantomBuster. Happy to find this community! 🚀 - Find it thanks to this good article: https://platformengineering.org/blog/what-is-platform-engineering ✍️

Hi everyone, I’m Antonio from Portugal 👋 . I moved to a platform engineer role 3y ago. Mainly working with Kubernetes, GitOps, IaC.

👋🏽 Hi everyone! I'm Hemant - a cloud engineer at Accenture Manchester. I followed this very interesting tweet https://twitter.com/luca_cloud/status/1574378535044743168 and landed here. Interested in all things Security and Observability!

Hello, Fred Newtz here and I have been into Cloud Automation / DevOps for approximately 7 years. Currently consult in the space and previously worked at Cisco on the CloudCenter team which is where I started my journey into the Cloud Automation space (immediately prior to that as a customer of Cliqr).

Hi everyojne! Rio from Australia, moving into cybersecurity from the MSP space. Read the articles on The New Stack around Platform Engineering and it looks like it's right up my alley

Hi everyone 🖖 I'm Sama, from BoxyHQ (bringing enterprise readiness to any SaaS app). Really happy to join this community, looking forward to learn more Platform Engineering and collaborate further! If anyone is around London, happy to grab a coffee ☕️

Hi Everyone! 👋I’m Rajeesh, Principal Architect at Granicus (https://granicus.com). Glad to join here! We are currently working on improving developer experience by self-service workflows and developer platform. Looking forward to be part of this community and to collaborate on exciting ideas!! 🙂

👋🏼 Hi there, I’m Emily (she/her), VP of Engineering at Honeycomb. I have always worked closely with the Platform Engineering team at past jobs and am really interested to see how the conversation around Platform Engineering matures in parallel with the conversations around SRE, Observability, DevSecOps, etc.

Hi folks! I'm Ciarán, an SRE/devops engineer at Viasat. We as a team are trying to move towards being a platform team, this place looks right up my alley. Was recommended here by Kaspar after the round table and I'm glad I joined! 😄

Hey y'all. I'm Hazel (she/they). I lead the Infrastructure team at Seaplane and I've always had a soft spot in my heart for platform engineering and the capabilities it unlocks. I'm really looking forward to seeing how people enable cross-functional collaboration and leverage their teams into effective force multipliers. I'm also looking forward to seeing how the interaction between platform engineering and (resilience|reliability|security|productivity) engineering will develop

Hello everyone.. I'm jorge from Colombia, currently I'm traveling around europe. nice to meet you guys.

Hello, I'm Ed and interested in lots of 'things' outside of my day job in network automation and security. Looking forward to learning and sharing with everyone.