Platform Engineers Colombo

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Join Sam Barlien as he unpacks the 2025 State of Platform Engineering report: why platform engineering is “eating the world,” how “shifting down” beats “shifting left,” and what a platform engineering-driven AI-native era means for platforms, teams, and the end of the artisan software engineer.

In this webinar, we will cover:

• Data on salary, maturity, best practices and more from 518 platform engineers
• What the best led platform teams are doing in 2026
• How platform engineering is industrializing the software delivery lifecycle

After a 30-minute talk there’ll be a 15-minute Q&A, for which we encourage you to submit questions in advance.
A webinar recording and related materials will be shared with all attendees after the event.

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Speaker:
Sam Barlien - Head of Ecosystem @ Platform Engineering

Sam Barlien is a community organiser for the Platform Engineering Community. He is a tech nerd, and has been involved in tech communities for more than 10 years. He helps manage Platform Weekly, co-hosts PlatformCon, and drives the community Ambassador program, blog and Youtube channel

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Platform and DevOps teams are beginning to apply a new idea to software delivery: bringing the security, control and resilience patterns long used in web and API infrastructures into the artifact layer of CI/CD. As pipelines increasingly depend on external sources (language modules, code libraries, software packages, orchestration scripts, Docker containers, and other types of files and binaries), issues like outages, registry throttling, developer sprawl, and supply-chain attacks introduce both risk and instability.

This session explores how emerging practices can create a more flexible, secure, resilient, and predictable dependency layer, without overhauling your artifact registries.

We’ll cover how teams are using Virtual Registries to:

• Abstract artifact registry access and increase flexibility while reducing vendor lock-in
• Introduce lightweight, inline security checks modeled after modern API gateways
• Reduce reliance on upstream registries to improve performance and latency at scale
• Apply web-style failover and caching tactics to keep builds running during outages
• Enhance observability, auditability and isolation without adding friction for developers
• Establish secure, consistent dependency flows as part of platform paved roads

After a 30-minute talk there’ll be a 15-minute Q&A, for which we encourage you to submit questions in advance.
A webinar recording and related materials will be shared with all attendees after the event.

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Speaker:
Thijs Feryn - Technical Evangelist @ Varnish Software

As the Technical Evangelist at Varnish Software, Thijs Feryn focuses on web performance, software scalability, and content delivery. He demonstrates content-driven and technical messaging through presentations, videos, books, blog posts, social media posts, podcasts, and other media.

Thijs is a published author and wrote Getting Started with Varnish Cache and Varnish 6 by Example. As a public speaker, he has a track record of over 380 presentations in 26 different countries, where he is often praised for his energetic and engaging presentation style. As an evangelist, Thijs is also active in many open-source communities, most notably the Varnish and PHP community. He has contributed to various communities for over 15 years both technically and as an organizer and facilitator. Prior to joining Varnish Software, Thijs Feryn spent 15 years in the web hosting industry, tackling web performance and scalability issues on a daily basis and evangelizing these topics.

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Modern applications aren’t just “lift-and-shift” workloads running in Kubernetes. They’re built on a set of principles that span architecture, delivery, operations, and platform readiness. In this webinar, we’ll break down each of these principles and connect them to concrete examples.

- Recognize and apply the 5 core principles of modern applications across design, delivery, and operations.
- Learn how GitOps, observability, and zero-trust security fit together into a coherent operating model.
- See an example of these principles in practice.

After a 30-minute talk there’ll be a 15-minute Q&A, for which we encourage you to submit questions in advance.

A webinar recording and related materials will be shared with all attendees after the event.
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Speaker:
Jad El-Zein - Technologist @ VMware by Broadcom

Jad El-Zein is a technology leader with more than 26 years of experience in the IT industry, covering technology adoption, implementation, and the development of advanced emerging solutions. His background includes 11 years with Lockheed Martin Corp and over 15 years at VMware and Broadcom.

Jad has led major IT transformation initiatives for U.S. Federal agencies and global enterprises. His expertise spans full-stack datacenter and cloud architectures, systems and network engineering, cloud management and automation, AI and ML development, and modern application platforms. He is the inventor of two U.S. patents focused on machine learning approaches to cloud optimization.

He is also experienced in technical writing, technical marketing, and product marketing, and is recognized as a speaker, mentor, team leader, and advocate for the technology community.

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Join Loreli Cadapan and Ajay Chankramath as they break down the unexpected consequences teams face during platform and tooling migrations, why modernization efforts often create more complexity, not less, and what platform teams can do to better protect developer experience, security, and operational efficiency.

In this webinar, we will cover:

- Why migrations frequently lead to increased tool sprawl, integration friction, and new security gaps
- The human cost of modernization, including burnout and organizational drag
- Patterns that separate successful modernization efforts from disruptive ones
- Practical strategies platform teams can use to reduce migration risk and improve long-term resilience

After a 30-minute talk there’ll be a 15-minute Q&A, for which we encourage you to submit questions in advance.
A webinar recording and related materials will be shared with all attendees after the event
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Speakers:
Loreli Cadapan - VP of Product Marketing @ Cloudbees

Loreli brings 25+ years of experience leading product strategy across DevOps, DevSecOps, and developer platforms, with a track record of building high-performing teams and shaping market-defining products at organizations like JFrog, Oracle, ActiveState and Liquibase.

Ajay Chankramath - Founder & CEO @ Platformetrics

Ajay has 3+ decades of technology leadership experience and currently the CEO of platformetrics. He is the co-author of Effective Platform Engineering, a unique platform Engineering practioner's book from Manning Publications. A regular speaker and panelist, as well as a prolific writer of blogs and other relevant publications, his current interests are around improving developer productivity using domain-driven platform engineering. Ajay is a trained computer scientist with significant technology leadership experience and advanced degrees in business and technology management.