Cloud Cost, GPU Platforms, and Scaling Without Tech Debt

We are excited to launch the first edition of Platform Engineering Meetup NL.

Join us on Wednesday, April 22, 2026 at Wibautstraat 200, Amsterdam, for an evening of practical talks, good conversations, pizza, and drinks with the Dutch platform engineering community.
This first session focuses on two topics that are increasingly relevant for modern engineering organizations: controlling infrastructure cost and operating shared AI platforms at scale.

Talk 1: Data Hoarder’s Guide to Surviving Cloud Bills
Darko Klincharski, DevOps Engineering Lead at Tarmac.io
In this session, Darko will share practical strategies his team used to reduce AWS spend in a large-scale production environment. The talk covers cost-effective management of petabytes of static data, handling large traffic volumes, and cleanup and maintenance of large databases. This is a real-world case study from a project with a reach of more than 700 million users worldwide.
About the speaker:
Darko Klincharski is DevOps Engineering Lead at Tarmac.io. He enjoys building reliable systems and making complex infrastructure feel simple. With a strong background in automation, cloud platforms, and CI/CD, he focuses on pragmatic solutions that scale without getting in the team’s way.

Talk 2: Lessons Learned Orchestrating Multi-Tenant GPUs on OpenShift AI with NVIDIA KAI (G/H200)
Luca Berton, Dell Technologies
How do you run shared, production-grade GPUs for AI/ML safely and efficiently? In this experience report, Luca will share lessons learned from implementing multi-tenant GPU orchestration on OpenShift AI using NVIDIA KAI on G/H200 hardware, fronted by Traefik and backed by Dell Technologies platforms.
The session covers:

• Tenant isolation patterns such as namespaces, quotas, and priority classes
• Scheduling across heterogeneous nodes
• MIG versus full-GPU trade-offs
• Throughput versus latency tuning
• Driver and firmware pitfalls
• Upgrade and rollback strategies
• Day-2 operations including observability, autoscaling, and chargeback

About the speaker:

Luca Berton is a freelance IT consultant with more than 18 years of experience in AI, cloud technologies, and automation. He has led projects across industries, teaches thousands of students through platforms such as Pluralsight and Coursera, and works extensively with Kubernetes, Terraform, and Ansible.

Who should attend?

• Platform engineers
• DevOps engineers
• SREs
• Cloud architects
• Engineering managers
• CTOs
• Developers interested in platform engineering and scalable infrastructure

Agenda

• 18:00 Arrival with pizza and drinks
• 18:45 Talks and discussion
• 20:30 Last round of drinks
• 21:00 Building closes

Whether you are working on cloud platforms, Kubernetes, cost optimization, developer platforms, or AI infrastructure, this meetup is for you.