Platform Engineers Dallas

67% of platform leaders struggle to build successful, scalable Internal Developer Platforms. Common pitfalls like unclear baselines and lack of stakeholder alignment, challenges slow progress, waste resources, and doom platform engineering initiatives.

With experience guiding hundreds of Platform Engineers and enterprise teams, Mallory brings a deep understanding of the cultural and technical hurdles organizations face when launching platform engineering efforts.

In this session, Mallory will explore:

• How Platform as a Product and the Minimum Viable Platform framework can help you kick off and sustain your journey
• How to effectively advocate for your platform across all levels of the organization
• Why alignment between the platform team and stakeholders is essential, and how to achieve it

We’ll also introduce our Platform Engineering Certification program, designed to build shared understanding, teach the fundamentals, and help your team define a clear, unified vision for your platform initiative.

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:
Mallory Haigh - Workshop Host, Platform Engineering
Mallory is Humanitec's Principal Platform Advocate with a background in customer support and success, full-stack software engineering, engineering management, and focusing on the strength of combining humans and technology. She brings a passion for education, the anthropological approach to software engineering, and improving developer experience to her role at Humanitec. When not connecting people with their platforms, Mallory is an avid equestrian and hobby farmer, and also a cat and dog mom.

Many organizations assume that adding Backstage to their infrastructure is enough to create a complete, and successful Internal Developer Platform. While Backstage can be a useful starting point, it alone isn't enough to realize the full potential of platform engineering. A true IDP requires more than just a frontend, it needs a robust, well-structured backend to deliver real value.

In this webinar, Kaspar will explore why a successful platform needs both a strong frontend and backend. He will demonstrate how to integrate open-source tools like Score and Backstage with a Platform Orchestrator like Humanitec to build a scalable, enterprise-grade Internal Developer Platform (IDP).

He'll cover:

• Using Backstage as the frontend and a Platform Orchestrator as the backend to build a seamless developer experience.
• Applying IDP reference architectures as blueprints for scalable enterprise platforms.
• A live demo of a fully-featured platform and its developer workflow.

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:

Kaspar von Grünberg, CEO at Humanitec
Kaspar is an early pioneer in platform engineering. Over the last decade he has been building Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) at scale, and is responsible for coining the term IDP. A regular speaker on the topic of platform engineering, Kaspar is the author of several associated defining articles. He is also the founder and CEO of Humanitec, the company behind Score and the Platform Orchestrator which is now the centerpiece at the majority of dynamic IDPs.

In this webinar, Mallory will introduce the fundamentals of platform engineering, focusing on building your Minimum Viable Platform (MVP). She will outline a step-by-step process for launching your MVP and scaling it into a full-fledged, enterprise-ready solution.

In this webinar, Mallory will cover:

• Key components of a successful MVP and how to build it efficiently
• Common mistakes to avoid during MVP development
• Strategies for scaling your platform and gaining organizational support

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:
Mallory Haigh, Workshop Host at Platform Engineering

Mallory is Humanitec's Principal Platform Advocate with a background in customer support and success, full-stack software engineering, engineering management, and focusing on the strength of combining humans and technology. She brings a passion for education, the anthropological approach to software engineering, and improving developer experience to her role at Humanitec. When not connecting people with their platforms, Mallory is an avid equestrian and hobby farmer, and also a cat and dog mom.