Scaling Organizations with Platform Engineering

Engineering organizations are often incentivized to prioritize short-term growth over long-term needs, leading to socio-technical consequences such as tech debt, organization siloes, and attrition. This talk focuses on how Platform Engineering can drive sustainability for growing organizations through DevOps principles, centralization, and scalable technical practices.

We'll cover these topics through the lens of standardization and provide guidance on when Platform Engineering is a practical approach. Using my experience at small and mid-size startups and large companies, we'll discuss what it means to build a sustainable organization and the natural evolution and role platform engineering plays in that organizational need. By the end of the talk, attendees will understand how Platform Engineering can provide long-term benefits to growing organizations so that short-term growth doesn't come at the expense of long-term sustainability.