Building Your First Platform Team in a Fast Growing Startup

Interview:

What's the focus of your work these days?

I'm leading our internal platform teams, both technical and product, enabling our developers to focus on building a great product! This means not only working closely with the platform teams, but also with all our product teams to understand their needs, pain points, and ways of working. 

What's the motivation for your talk at QCon London 2024?

I want to show how much value you can bring, even to a small organization, when you invest in developer experience.

How would you describe your main persona and target audience for this session?

Technical decision-makers and leaders from small to medium-sized organizations. With that being said, I think there are things that would apply to larger organizations as well.

Is there anything specific that you'd like people to walk away with after watching your session?

I want them to have an idea of how they can get started, if they haven't already. How to think around such an effort strategically and how to weigh tradeoffs. To get new ideas on how to introduce developers to platform tooling and gain adoption.