Platform Engineering New York: Autumn Edition

Join us October 17 for Platform Engineering New York (PENY) meetup hosted by Google! PENY is an open and inclusive meetup group, organized by volunteer members of the community, for the community. We welcome all to join and attend these meetups - whether practicing, adjacent to, or interested in platform engineering.

Agenda
6:00pm - 6:45pm: Social time. Food and drinks.
6:45pm - 7:00pm: Sponsor Talk: Bala Ramesh (Chronosphere)
7:00pm - 7:30pm: Talk 1: Dispelling Common Platform Engineering Myths (Paul Revello, Google)
7:30pm - 8:00pm: Talk 2: When Your Colleagues Are Your Customers (Tom Elliott, Ocuroot)

Sponsors
Meetups aren't free. Thank you to our sponsors for providing a platform (pun intended) to make this meetup a reality!

Google
Thank you Google for sponsoring the venue and refreshments for this meetup!

Chronosphere
Thank you to Chronosphere for sponsoring drinks after the event!

Talk #1: Dispelling Common Platform Engineering Myths (Paul Revello, Google)
Platform Engineering is a new approach to software delivery that is still being defined, but it is often misunderstood as "just automation" or a replacement for infrastructure teams— both of which are not the case. In this talk we'll go over some common misconceptions about Platform Engineering and how to better approach some of these topics.

Speaker Bio: Paul Revello
Paul is a lifelong technologist that has been focused on making the services his teams have provided easy to adopt and build on top of for as long as he can remember. His head has been in the clouds for a while now, but before that he was firmly rooted in the datacenter. When he is not thinking about IaC, team structures or how to bridge services together to ease adoption and speed value you will find him with his family in the NYC area exploring a museum or taking in live music.

Talk #2: When Your Colleagues Are Your Customers (Tom Elliott, Ocuroot)
Building a platform is like building a product— except you're often doing it without the guidance of a Product Manager. In this talk, we'll explore how platform engineers can effectively gather feedback from internal teams, prioritize high-impact projects, and prove ROI despite being a cost center.

Speaker Bio: Tom Elliott
Tom is an 18-year software engineer with focused expertise in DevOps. Over the past 5 years leading the SRE group at Yext, Tom oversaw the development of essential tooling and processes, including CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks, and incident management. Now, Tom is building Ocuroot, a pipeline-free, yaml-free CI/CD tool designed for the Platform era.

Registration
Space is limited so we are requiring registration for this event. We will only be able to check in registered attendees whose first and last name match their identification. We cannot accommodate guests that are not registered attendees. Please do not hesitate to RSVP, but if your plans change we would appreciate it if you return to update your attendance status.

Accessibility
This venue is wheelchair accessible. There is no live captioning.

Call for Presentations
Do you have a story to share with our community at a future meetup? Please submit a proposal!