Engineering organizations often face the consequences of building software in a way that prioritizes short-term gains over long-term ones. This has a lot of sociotechnical consequences, including tech debt, retention issues, and, ultimately, business risk. This talk focuses on how Platform Engineering can drive sustainability through its DevOps based principles, strong support system, and standardized shared architecture.

We’ll begin by reviewing what organizational sustainability is and how Platform Engineering can facilitate it. The rest of the talk will be split into three primary sections:
1. The sociotechnical principles provided by DevOps
2. The robust support structures that enable platform adoption and faster delivery.
3. The Platform architecture, its principles, common tensions, and a framework for how to build platform architectures that enable product engineers to do their best work.

By the end, these principles and practices will tie together to form a concrete case study on how organizations can benefit from Platform Engineering teams.

I have worked in platform focused teams across various organization sizes, including large organizations like Google, medium sized companies like The New York Times, and small startups earlier in their technical journey.

This talk can be between 30 and 45 minutes.

Takeaways:
1. Gain a new framework for building platforms that improve developer experience in a way that enables organizations to operate in a sustainable way.
2. Understand the type of impact a community-driven approach to Platform Engineering leads to, e.g. technical excellence, faster delivery, and how this ties to business impact.
3. Learn about architectural patterns that address common design tensions, e.g. standardization vs flexibility, simplicity vs complexity, integrations and coupling, and the decision to build vs buy.

I've previously spoken at:
LeadDev 2022, NDC London 2023, DevOpsDays Atlanta, DevOpsDay Chicago, The DEVOPS Conference, and more.