Hi everyone - I'm Ray Ryjewski, I'm a Sr Solutions (Sales) Engineer for HashiCorp. I've been in technical sales for the last 15 years, mostly in the observability space and I'm about to hit 2 years at HashiCorp. As I've been getting my arms wrapped around the Platform Engineering space I am convinced that platform engineers have been tasked with a monumental task. They are building the "Information Factory" and I really want to help them with that task. Recently I've been spending a lot of time thinking about how to maximize the value that the platform team can provide to their enterprise and I would really like to find some like-minded individuals that I could talk to and get some feedback on my thoughts.

I would be curious on your thoughts. My perspective is platform as product and the way product management discipline drives value through platforms.