Ajay Chankramath
Founder | CEO | Platformetrics
Broomfield, Colorado, United States
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Ajay has 3+ decades of technology leadership experience and is the founder and CEO of Platformetrics an exclusive Platform Engineering advisory, consulting and education firm.
He is the co-author of Effective Platform Engineering (Manning) and a co-author of upcoming Platform Engineer's Handbook (Packt). A regular speaker and panelist, as well as a prolific writer of blogs and other relevant publications, his current interests are around improving developer productivity using domain-driven platform engineering. Ajay is a trained computer scientist with significant technology leadership experience and advanced degrees in business and technology management.
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Platform Value Model for IDPs and DI Platforms
This session will introduce the concept of Platform Value Model (PVM). As organizations embark on their DevOps journey through building technical capability platforms - Delivery Infrastructure (DI) Platforms or internal development platforms (IDPs) - one of the biggest challenges is to follow a value based prioritization, figure out the priorities and articulate tangible value of building these platform capabilities to your stakeholders - leadership, product management, finance and most importantly your internal clients.
In this talk, we will be unveiling a model that can be used by organizations both small and large to figure out measurable return on investment for your technical platform products and capabilities. We will be using a real-life use case to demonstrate how to forecast the value of each of the capabilities. We will further demonstrate how to measure the actual value against the forecasted projections.
Specifically we will focus on:
1. The ability to model costs and value of your platform engineering investments over a timeline
2. Assess for optimistic and pessimistic scenarios
3. How to accommodate changes during execution
4. Ability to model realized vs projected value
5. Accommodate various success metrics including Flow metrics and DORA.
Takeaways:
At the end of the talk the audience should be able to:
1. Understand how this model is applicable to the entire platform capability decision making process
2. Steps to incorporate this model into their devops journey
3. How to extend and customize this model for seamless contextual integration
Lean LaaS Paradox for Platform Engineering
In today's dynamic technological landscape, Platform Engineering has emerged as a critical function for driving organizational efficiency and empowering developers. However, the integration of Lean principles with Leadership-as-a-Service (LaaS) introduces a unique set of challenges and opportunities, often referred to as the Lean LaaS Paradox. This talk explores this paradox, focusing on how Lean management techniques can be leveraged to conceptualize, articulate value, prioritize implementation, drive adoption, and ultimately make platform engineering activities successful.
Harmony in Engineering Platforms: A Decision Tree Symphony for Orchestrator Selection
Explore orchestrator choices in this talk. Dive into pros/cons, a strategic decision tree model, and reduce cognitive load for platform engineers. Harmonize your platform decisions effectively!
GenAI in Platform Engineering: 5 Keys to Adoption & Impact
GenAI is reshaping PE, but success hinges on adoption, developer experience, and product thinking. This talk explores five key strategies for integrating GenAI into internal platforms, driving usability, trust, and measurable business impact.
Domain-Driven Platform Engineering: Enhancing Cloud Native Platforms Across Industries
Explore how domain-driven platform engineering revolutionizes cloud native platforms across various business sectors including BFSI, HCLS, Retail, Public Sector, Automotive, and Manufacturing. This session delves into the core principles of building and customizing platforms tailored to specific industry needs, automating infrastructure operations, and improving self-service workflows for developers. Attendees will gain insights into integrating domain-specific requirements with cloud native technologies, extending platform functionalities to meet unique business challenges, and accelerating software delivery through optimized toolchains and workflows. Learn how domain-driven design principles enable platform engineers, DevOps professionals, and developers to create resilient, scalable, and efficient platforms that drive business innovation and operational excellence.
Architecting an optimal FinOps Platform
This session will discuss the techniques for optimizing your cloud investments using FinOps Platform ideas. The core concepts of FinOps are well understood but consistency in implementing the recommendations provided by a plethora of reporting and analysis tools are less structured. This talk dive deep into these concepts and present a scalable model
Most organizations who have adopted the public clouds (and in some cases private clouds) over the past decade are currently struggling with an ideal way to optimize their cloud investments. This talk will focus on the techniques and eventually a blueprint for building a FinOps platform. The main points I will be focusing on is the relevance of the triumvirate of Finance, Product and Technology, core principles of the FinOps platform and the building blocks of this platform. I will expand on the 5 core principles around - Data democratization, pipeline management, organizational alignment, sustainability and the platform operating model and map it to the building blocks. This approach will power measurable improvements for an organization trying to optimize their cloud investments using a platform implemented in a bespoke manner aligned with the pre-existing core technology platforms they have.
Takeaways:
1.Why should you consider a FinOps Platform for your cloud optimization problem?
2.What are the key building blocks of the FinOps Platform?
3.How can the Platform capabilities address the reusable nature of the needs of Finance, Product and Technology bringing it all under one unified umbrella
Ajay Chankramath
Founder | CEO | Platformetrics
Broomfield, Colorado, United States
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