Chris Plank
Enterprise Architect, NatWest Group, Scotland
Dundee, United Kingdom
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Chris Plank is a Enterprise Architect, Product Owner and Platform as a Product evangelist working for NatWest Bank in Edinburgh, Scotland. He has been leading a Platform as a Product initiative within the Bank SINCE 2023 looking to radically change the Banks approach to provisioning and maintaining services. Outside of work, Chris is a passionate catch-and-release Fly Fisherman and Landscape Photographer.
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Panel: Platform as a Product as a transformation enabler within one of the top 4 banks in the UK
We often hear about the usage and benefits of Platform as a Product and Internal Developer Portals to reduce cognitive load on developers and increase velocity, but we rarely hear about the benefits to other teams.
Come listen to this talk and hear from different people and perspectives involved in NatWest Bank’s Platform as a Product journey over the last 2 years.
The Transformation Lead, the Architect/Product Owner, the Lead Engineer/Private Cloud IaaS Expert, the AWS Engineer/expert and the Partner/Supplier will be onstage talking about their individual experiences and journey. Is it a panel talk, is it a case study? Actually it’s both!
Each persona will spend a couple of minutes each talking about their own adventure before the session is opened up to audience participation in choosing which topics and questions are put to the panel to answer.
Unlocking Innovation: How NatWest Bank Uses Cloud Native Tools To Deliver Platform as a Product
The Platform Maturity Model, developed by the CNCF Platforms Working Group states that treating internal platforms as products is a key tenet of modern Platform Engineering.
This talk covers how NatWest got started on their Platform as a Product journey, establishing a cross functional team with a GitOps approach and incorporated a range of open source tools including Kubernetes, Backstage, Flux, Gitlab, Kratix to enable platform users to have a seamless developer experience.
Serving over 20 million customers, NatWest Bank is one of the “big 4” Banks in the UK. The speakers will dive into how the Bank has grown this capability over the past 18 months and discuss the teams’ experiences so far, including the challenges of being a large regulated Financial Services organisation. They will share the lessons learned and highlight their next steps for driving innovation further, leaving attendees with valuable insights to apply to their own thinking and activities in this area.
Platform Engineering in Financial Institutions: the Practitioner Panel
In the world of small and large financial institutions, platform engineering is a driver for shipping quickly, safely, and efficiently. This panel brings together seasoned practitioners from leading banks and financial institutions to share their firsthand platform experiences, successes, and challenges.
- Discover how platform engineering can enhance developer experience, facilitate rapid innovation and drive efficiencies.
- Delve into the complexities of navigating regulatory compliance, specifically when using open source technologies such as Kubernetes.
- Learn from the experts' successes, setbacks and strategies (across technology and people), gaining actionable insights for successful implementation.
Join us as we discuss the journey of adopting and deploying CNCF technologies at scale within the highly regulated financial sector. We’ll explore practical examples of both successes and incidents where things have gone wrong, providing the audience with valuable takeaways.
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