Platform Engineering in Practice: From Buzzword to Backbone

Platform Engineering in Practice: From Buzzword to Backbone
Platform Engineering has become a hot topic —and yet, still widely misunderstood. In this talk, Michelle Casey shares a practical introduction to the discipline, tracing its roots through DevOps and SRE, and offering real-world lessons learned from the field. Whether you're building platforms, using them, or trying to define what "good" looks like, this session will help untangle the hype from the hard work—and leave you with a clearer picture of what Platform Engineering really is.

Agenda

5:30 pm: Welcome & Networking with Pizza and refreshments.
6:00 pm: Platform Engineering; What, why, do's and don'ts By Michelle Casey
6:45-7:30 Networking and Q&A

Speaker - Michelle Casey.
Lead consultant, Wires Uncrossed Engineering. Ex Xero, IAG
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Michelle is a refreshingly authentic and versatile software engineering leader with experience leading teams across a range of disciplines including reliability, product engineering and platform engineering. She enjoys helping organisations manage their increasing engineering complexity at the intersection of people and technology, and has a special interest in resilience engineering and learning from incidents.