Greetings! My name is Josh Nachbar, my usual charter is a focus on enterprise-grade readiness capabilities and a defensive infosec posture. I am coming from many years of Enterprise cloud implementation at gargantuan levels of scale across defense, financial, energy, transportation, and private sectors. I am the president/director/CEO/CTO anything you want to call primary operator of a small boutique consultancy called NightShift Solutions (https://nightshift.io), we do a lot of un-sticking of stuck k8s adoptions, guidance, and hands-on contribution to the abstraction of enterprise platform solutions into valuable and productive workflows for development teams. Prior to that I was fortunate enough to help bootstrap a project called Platform One (https://software.af.mil/team/platformone/) now used by more orgs then I can keep up with (DARPA, NIST, F35 program, IRS, Space CAMP, to name just a handful). Happy to be here.

Hi! I’m Ke, I work as a software engineer at Engineer Productivity team at Acast in Sweden. Very exciting to be here😀

Hello folks, I’m Renato, currently Head of Platform Engineering at Gorgias and previously from GetFeedback (By SurveyMonkey). I’m really passionate about Platform teams and how to create a self-service-“able” platform, and what kind of best practices we can have out of the box for this said platform, let’s say, idempotency of events, atomicity, dealing with local projections of data and etc. I’ll be talking about some of it on April 21st on a Webinar by Humanitec and it’d be awesome to see you there! On the week before on April 13th, 7PM CEST/12PM CDT/10AM PT I’ll be hosting a 30 mins AMA/chattery on #platform-stories, if you’d like to explore a bit on what we have done at GetFeedback (By SurveyMonkey) it’d be awesome, there’s a lot to talk about how to make Data Streaming pipelines with Kafka, Debezium in a microservices architecture. I hope to see you there 🙂

Hey folks. Rani here. I'm a Platform Engineering Manager at Audibene/hear.com. I've jumped on the platform bandwagon ~ 1 year ago and I'm super passionate about all topics platform, Kubernetes, IaC and engineering empowerment. 1 year into the journey of moving away from the world of synchronous dependencies on a central “DevOps” team and I find myself saturated with ideas and dreams on how to move the needle. Looking forward to connecting with folks on all phases of this journey to share learnings and avoid re-inventing the wheel. Super glad that my search for a platform community is finally over 😌

Is anyone in Austin,Texas?

Hello everyone, I’m Andre Almar and currently I’m a Staff Platform Engineer at Quiqup (quiqup.com). My challenge is to move the company towards Platform Engineering. We are just getting started in this new adventure that should be lots of fun. Happy to learn with all of you here.

Lots of companies and enterprise are exploring on new tech on platform engineering.

Hi 👋 I am allegro.pl infrastructure team manager. We are the biggest e-commerce platform in Poland. We have our own appengine, we are using private&public cloud and we are currently exploring new directions for our tech platform (using backstage as one of the options) . Happy to be here 👋

Hi everyone 👋, I am Henning, former Head of Developer Productivity and long-time platform/principal engineer at Zalando 🇪🇺 [1]. I'm grateful to see this community as I think Platform Engineering is underleveraged in most companies. I'm happy to share what we are doing in Zalando and to learn and get inspiration from everyone else here 😄 [1] https://srcco.de/posts/one-decade-in-zalando-tech.html

Hey 👋 I'm Johannes, formerly a working as a Staff Infrastructure Engineer @ Contentful and now recently joined Humanitec to work on the Internal Developer Platform offering. Really excited to join this community 🕺. I'm super interested in simplifying CI/CD/Ops for other engineering teams, am based in Berlin, Germany and always happy to have a chat 🙂

Hey there! I'm Mostafa, working as a DevOps engineer at DataChef. I am massive experienced in IaC, specially with AWS CDK, also CICD pipelines with different vendors.

Hi, I'm Omer, Staff engineer in the Cloud Platform team at Slack. Very excited to finding this community

Hi everyone! I'm Juan from Spain and I'm currently working as Platform Product Manager at Inditex. Delighted to see there is a community around Platform Engineering 🙂 Looking forward to learn from you all!

Hi I m Alexander working as devops architect @ Axway, Located in France. Really glad to join this channel, working with R&D mostly for Apps integration inside Kubernetes and Platform development. I love Open Source of course

Hey folks, I’m Rob based in Toronto - I head up product management at stack.io where we tackle all things related to the ops-side of DevOps, helping orgs augment or kick-off their ops team. Happy to be a part of this community and start absorbing some valuable and engaging convos.

Hi folks! I’m Miguel, an SRE working in the Platform division of Harvest. I’m interested in learning more about Platform as as Product.

Hi there. I'm Mike and I'm a Devops Engineer working in financial services. Keen to see what's happening in platform and to keep up to date with developments more than anything. 🎉

Hello, I am a Director of Product Management @f5.com. I own NGINX Plus/OSS, our mgmt platform and NGINX Instance Manager. (I have some job openings if folks are interested too.)

Hi there! I'm Anwesha, a Product Manager at Concentrix. I am leading the interoperability initiative within my organization. I'd love to interact and see how folks are thinking about this.

Hi everyone! I’m Alex, the Head of Platform Engineering at Wix. Mainly I’m focused now on what comes after developers can independently provision services to production - what do they provision and on what they spend their time which is not business logic. We build Internal frameworks, data migration tools, and other things that eliminate boilerplate code and boost velocity. Eager to learn and share with the group 🙂

Perhaps not strictly the right community for this, but let's see 😄 Anyone mind picking their brain on IAM / access mgt automation?

Hey all! I'm the Executive Manager of Architecture at REA Group and have taken the opportunity (with PlatformCon being fully virtual) to share a bit of our aussie platform journey in my talk When can you afford a platform? At work I love helping our architects keep track of and evolve our platforms as well as helping grow the tech community. At home I like to cycle and read and am hoping to encourage my 5yo to do the same 🙂

Hi I'm Katie, contract Platform Engineer at the Co-op in the UK; Speaks German, Alignment - Chaotic Neutral, Bard/Ranger https://linktr.ee/katiehemus

Hi everyone! I currently work at bKash limited in Bangladesh as VP of cloud engineering. We’re a fintech company bridging the unbanked population of Bangladesh. I have been working on AWS, GCP, K8s projects by focusing on solution designs, CI-CD, cost optimisation etc. happy to be a part of this community and looking forward to grow together. I will be migrating to Canada in August, hope to connect for job opportunities as well. Wish you all a good day.

Hey everyone! 👋 I work as global Head of Operational Intelligence at IKEA Retail (INGKA) where we deliver the platforms for Observability, Monitoring, Event Management and automation (AIOps) to the many engineers and co-workers in IKEA wider enterprise. Happy to connect and favourite topics (beside data and Observability) are Platform as a Product, Developer experience and DevRel.

Hi all! I'm Mohd. I'm a Solutions Engineer at Rasa Technologies GmbH. We are building a platform to automate conversational customer experience at scale! My interest is in building platforms using cloud-native components.

Hi Everyone! I'm Lorenzo Samaniego and I am currently serving as the AVP of Platform Engineering at Fairway Independent Mortgage! Scaling "DevOps" capabilities is the primary focus of my role. Current tech we are tackling includes Azure PaaS, AWS ECS, updating Java development workflow practices. I'm really excited to join the community and can't wait to collaborate with everyone!

Hey everyone 👋 I’m Luke, I lead our Platform engineering teams at Monzo, a bank in the UK. Looking forward to learning from you all in here and sharing some of my lessons from scaling platform teams over the last few years!

Helo Everyone, I am Jeswin Koshy Ninan working as Senior platform engineer in Kaufland e-commerce and living in Cologne, Germany. My professional background is mostly under software platform engineering especially in the area of cloud and container platforms. I am a community speaker, AWS community builder for containers, Organizer of CNCF trivandrum chapter, a CNCF and also OSS Project Contributor.