About us
Cloud Platform Engineering London is a practitioner-led community for engineers, platform teams, SREs, architects, and technology leaders building and operating modern cloud platforms at scale.
We focus on the real-world engineering challenges of building reliable, secure, cost-efficient, and developer-friendly platforms, from infrastructure and automation through governance, operations, and production readiness.
We run:
• Bi-monthly in-person meetups in London
• Collaboration with related Community Stack groups across the UK and globally
Whether you work in platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, cloud architecture, or you’re just beginning your journey into this space, you’re very welcome here.
Our events explore:
• Platform Engineering, Internal Developer Platforms & golden paths
• Kubernetes, containers & cloud-native runtime environments
• Infrastructure as Code, automation & GitOps
• Reliability, security, observability & operations
• Developer experience, tooling, governance & lifecycle management
• Real-world case studies, lessons learned & production stories
This community is part of the Community Stack Ecosystem, meaning members can also discover and join our wider communities across Cloud, Data & AI, DevOps, Open Source, Leadership, meaning members can also discover and join our wider communities across Cloud, Data & AI, DevOps, Open Source, Leadership and more. You can explore and join other ecosystems and events here.
Members are automatically subscribed to our weekly community newsletter via Meetup, where we share upcoming events, speaker call-outs, learning resources, and ecosystem updates. We also publish selected talks and highlights via our YouTube channel.
We’re always looking for:
• Speakers — talks, lightning sessions, demos and case studies
• Hosts — organisations able to provide welcoming community venues
• Sponsors — support with refreshments, marketing and accessibility
• Collaborators — meetup partners, open-source communities and networks
If you’d like to speak, sponsor, host, or get involved, please reach out via Meetup or connect with Ethan Sumner on LinkedIn.
Community Values:
This group follows the Community Stack Code of Conduct & Privacy Policy
We aim to create a respectful, inclusive, and welcoming environment for everyone, across all backgrounds, experience levels, roles, and identities
Upcoming events
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- Network event
Agentic AI Across Cloud, Platform Engineering & Data
81 Rivington Street, London,, EC2A 3AY, London, GB33 attendees from 6 groupsHello and welcome to our special joint meetup between Cloud Platform Engineering London, Cloud Platform Engineering Leaders, Data & AI Leaders, AWS AI UG, Azure AI UG, and GCP London.
This crossover event brings together platform engineers, cloud architects, data and AI leaders, SREs, engineering managers, technology executives, and practitioners exploring how AI is reshaping modern cloud platforms, developer workflows, business transformation, and enterprise engineering.
This is a special Community Stack ecosystem event, bringing together several of our cloud, platform, and data-focused communities for an evening of practical talks, senior technical discussion, and cross-community networking.
A huge thank you to Arrows for hosting and sponsoring this event, and for supporting the growth of the cloud, platform engineering, data, and AI community in London.
Speakers and sessions:
Get a High Return-on-Investment from AI Business Transformation
Nora Balla, Founder and AI Business Transformation Lead, Add Velocity
Nora Balla is the founder of Add Velocity, an AI-native business transformation and implementation consultancy.
Nora has gained extensive experience across investment products, business transformation, finance operations, and regulated asset and wealth management environments. Previously a freelancer, she now operates in a collaborative delivery model, helping organisations scale AI and automation solutions in complex business settings.
Her experience includes finance transformation at Harley-Davidson, reporting process improvements in commercial real estate funds, and supporting the Aladdin implementation at Royal London Asset Management.
In this session, Nora will explore how organisations can achieve a stronger return on investment from AI business transformation. The talk will cover the opportunities and high-value use cases, the real risks organisations need to manage, the skills required for the agentic era, how to define and measure success, and practical tips for improving efficiency when working with AI systems.Agents in the Fastlane
Ryan Cormack, Principal Engineer, Motorway
Luke Marrai, Engineering Manager, Motorway
Motorway has used traditional AI and machine learning for years to enhance and improve its systems. But how can those years of learning be applied to build the next generation of agentic systems for users?
In this session, Ryan Cormack and Luke Marrai from Motorway will explore how they are enhancing the functionality of Motorway’s platform to provide more accurate search results for dealers looking to acquire stock through the online marketplace.
The talk will cover how Motorway is using AWS AgentCore to run its agentic systems, and how evals are being used to ensure the system performs as expected.
Ryan Cormack is a Principal Engineer at Motorway, the UK’s leading used car marketplace, where he leads technical strategy and drives AI-powered transformation across the engineering organisation. With over 14 years of experience building and scaling systems on AWS, Ryan specialises in turning architectural best practices into practical engineering outcomes, from cloud modernisation programmes to the adoption of agentic workflows and AI-native developer tooling.
Luke Marrai is an Engineering Manager at Motorway, supporting engineering delivery and helping teams build effective, scalable technology for one of the UK’s leading automotive technology platforms.
Agenda:18:00 — Arrival, refreshments and networking
18:30 — Welcome and introduction
18:35 — Get a High Return-on-Investment from AI Business Transformation — Nora Balla
19:00 — Break and networking
19:20 — Agents in the Fastlane — Ryan Cormack and Luke Marrai
20:00 — Networking
20:45 — CloseJoin us on June 11th:
We are also hosting the Cloud Native & Open Source AI Conference on June 11th in London, bringing together a fantastic line-up of speakers across AI, cloud-native, open-source, platform engineering, leadership, and modern infrastructure.
You can view the full speaker line-up and event details hereAbout the communities:
This event is jointly hosted across Cloud Platform Engineering London, Cloud Platform Engineering Leaders, Data & AI Leaders, AWS AI UG, Azure AI UG, and GCP London.
Together, these communities form part of the Community Stack ecosystem, bringing together technical practitioners, leaders, partners, and organisations across cloud, platform engineering, data, AI, and open technology.
We are always keen to hear from speakers, hosts, sponsors, and community partners.If you would like to speak, sponsor, or host a future event, please reach out to Ethan Sumner via LinkedIn.
This event follows the Community Stack Code of Conduct and Privacy Policy, ensuring a respectful, inclusive, and welcoming environment for all attendees.14 attendees from this group
Past events
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