Approx, we've already reached the halfway point of the year. Chances are your curiosity about platform engineering has likely grown exponentially. I have the best team to reflect on the significant advancements we've made in platform engineering so far this year."

How to evangelize platforms initiative within an organization, to meet the unique needs of diverse target communities, including application development teams, security professionals, FinOps, and data scientists, AI teams.

Marino Wijay Kat Morgan Whitney Lee David Stenglein Vamshi Krishna samudrala will share their valuable experiences from notable industry events such as KubeCon Paris, KubeHuddle, Platform Engineering Day, MS Build, and Kubernetes Community Days (KCD) New York .....

▬▬▬▬▬▬ 👋 Meet Marino Wijay 👋 ▬▬▬▬▬▬
👉 https://x.com/virtualized6ix

Marino Wijay is a Canadian, currently working as a Solutions engineer at Komodor, Traveller, International Speaker, Open Source Advocate for Service Mesh, Kubernetes, and Networking. He is an Ambassador @ Civo Cloud, and Lead Organizer for KubeHuddle Toronto. He is passionate about technology and modern distributed systems. He will always fall back to the patterns of Networking and the ways of the OSI. Community building is his driving force; A modern Jedi Academy.

Simplify cluster management and troubleshooting to unlock the full value of K8s, and drive innovation at scale. https://komodor.com/

▬▬▬▬▬▬ 👋 Meet Whitney Lee 👋 ▬▬▬▬▬▬
👉 https://x.com/wiggitywhitney

Whitney is a lovable goofball and a CNCF Ambassador, and a Developer Advocate at Broadcom who enjoys understanding and using tools in the cloud native landscape. Creative and driven, Whitney recently pivoted from an art-related career to one in tech. You can catch her lightboard streaming show ⚡️ Enlightning on Tanzu.TV, and she also co-hosts the streaming show You Choose! - a 'Choose-Your-Own-Adventure'-style journey through the CNCF landscape alongside Viktor Farcic.

▬▬▬▬▬▬ 👋 Meet Kat Morgan 👋 ▬▬▬▬▬▬
👉 https://x.com/usrbinkat

Kat Morgan is a Developer Advocate specializing in DevOps and MLOps in the Pulumi ecosystem.
With her diverse career spanning Dell, Canonical, Red Hat, Kong, Azure, and Pulumi, she's gained a practical perspective into common challenges and pitfalls of Cloud Native development and operations. Leveraging her experience in Enterprise Support and Field Engineer Consulting, Kat is committed to enabling others to craft their own success stories in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Outside the professional arena, Kat embraces the Pacific Northwest lifestyle, enjoying outdoor adventures and advancing her own project.

▬▬▬▬▬▬ 👋 Meet David Stenglein 👋 ▬▬▬▬▬▬
👉   / davidstenglein  

I help people solve challenges at the intersection of people, business and technology. I come with over two and a half decades of experience with technology from systems to software, with people from leadership to advising and consulting for customers and in business from process to product and business development. I am comfortable working with engineers and executives, technical and non-technical people. My job is to make people comfortable so they feel like they can solve problems.

▬▬▬▬▬▬ 👋 Meet Vamshi Krishna Samudrala 👋 ▬▬▬▬▬▬
👉   / vamshi-krishna-samudrala-a3548721  

Enterprise Architect with a distinguished career spanning 14 years in the fields of DevOps and Cloud Architecture. Focused on automation, configuration management, and innovation with cutting-edge technologies. Worked extensively with leading cloud service providers, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure possesses an exceptional ability to architect scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud solutions that align with the unique requirements of each organization.

▬▬▬▬▬▬ 🎓 Discussion Highlights 🎓 ▬▬▬▬▬▬ ▬▬▬▬▬▬ ▬▬▬▬▬▬
Product Thinking for Platform Engineering Teams:
- Understanding how to adopt a product-centric mindset in platform engineering.

Leadership Skills for Managing Platform Teams:
- Essential leadership qualities and skills for effectively managing platform engineering teams.

Experiences and Lessons from Industry Events:
First-hand accounts and lessons learned from leading events like KubeCon Paris, KubeHuddle, Platform Engineering Day, MS Build, and KCD New York.

Catering to Diverse Target Communities:
Tailoring platform engineering efforts to meet the specific needs of different user groups, including developers, security teams, FinOps, and AI/ML practitioners.