Platform Engineers SF & Bay Area

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This webinar looks to develop strategies for mastering cost-effective AI agent evaluation at scale using stratified sampling, risk-based testing, and multi-stage screening to cut costs while maintaining enterprise-grade quality control.

This webinar will share key insights on AI agent evaluation and highlight how to:

• Cut evaluation costs through stratified sampling across personas and risk-based prioritisation, focusing resources on high-impact, high-variance scenarios rather than exhaustive testing.
• Build progressive evaluation systems using multi-stage screening that catches obvious issues cheaply, then applies deeper evaluation only where needed - balancing "vibes" for content vs rigorous testing for critical processes.
• Implement enterprise-ready observability with OpenTelemetry telemetry, persona coverage maps, and continuous calibration frameworks that adapt as your agentic platform scales and models evolve

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.

Disclaimer: We use Zoom for the webinar stream. The link to the webinar will be sent upon your registration to your email.
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Speaker:
Glyn Darkin - Global Head of Delivery @ ClearRoute

Having worked in roles ranging from cold caller, marketer and lead engineer in several start-ups to Chief Architect in a Global SI, Glyn Darkin’s jack-of-all-trades aptitude and engineer’s mindset is a winning combination in his role as Global Head of Delivery. Quick to grasp the most convoluted business issue, he has an impressive track record of using technology to solve client problems. His past achievements include developing an award-winning digital mortgage product for a leading bank, and building TescoEntertainment

Fascinated by AI, Glyn’s current obsession is staying ahead of the sweeping changes it brings. At home, he spends his evenings coding to fully understand how the technology will affect not only ClearRoute’s ways of working, but the types of products and platforms we implement for our customers.

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Discover why CI/CD pipelines weren’t built for today’s testing realities. As AI-driven development accelerates release cycles, traditional CI/CD pipelines are buckling under the weight of automated testing, leading to slower feedback, brittle environments, and rising infrastructure costs.

The truth is, CI/CD was designed for builds and deployments, not large-scale test execution. In this webinar, we’ll unpack why cloud-native leaders are moving beyond legacy pipelines and how purpose-built continuous testing platforms are helping teams achieve both speed and quality.

What attendees will learn during the webinar:

• Understand the architectural limits of CI/CD and how AI-driven development and rapid release cycles expose gaps in scalability, visibility, and reliability.
• Learn how leading engineering orgs unify test insights across tools, eliminate flaky environments with Kubernetes-native approaches, and cut infrastructure costs through smarter resource allocation.
• Discover how purpose-built continuous testing platforms, designed for speed, scale, and AI-enhanced delivery, are redefining how teams balance quality with velocity.

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Speaker:
Ole Lensmar - CTO @ Testkube

Ole started building with XML APIs in the late 90s and has since then worked with multiple technologies and startups, most notably as creator of SoapUI in 2004 and Chairman of the Swagger / OpenAPI Initiative in 2015. He joined Testkube at its inception in 2021 and is now entirely focused on ensuring its success at bringing continuous testing to the cloud-native space. When not at his laptop he can be found playing a guitar or riding a bike, but rarely both at the same time.

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AI coding agents promise speed, but without strong platform engineering they can create chaos. In this networking event, learn why governance, golden paths, and platform adoption aren’t nice-to-haves; they’re essential for securely shipping AI workloads and making “platforms for AI” the real enterprise advantage.

AI is everywhere right now, but in the rush to “add AI,” many teams are overlooking the fundamentals that make it work at scale. Without clear workflows, adoption strategies, and built-in security, adding AI agents often means more complexity, more risk, and more firefighting.
Come meet others working in the field and join this open, practical discussion with engineers who are actually in the trenches shipping AI workloads. Bring your war stories, your wins, your failures, and your questions.

⛳During the meetup we’ll discuss:

• How to spot the security and complexity risks AI agents introduce without standardized workflows
• How governance, golden paths, and platform adoption can keep AI deployments safe and scalable
• How AI coding agents are reshaping the platform team’s role and what that means for your org

Come network and learn with us!

🎈Agenda:

5:00 - 5:30 pm PST - welcome and networking
5:30 - 6:30 pm PST - panel discussion, questions from the audience
6:30 - 7:00 pm PST - networking with refreshments 🍸 and small delicacies🥗

If you’re attending Microsoft Ignite or QCon in San Francisco, this meetup is the perfect chance to connect with fellow practitioners. Don’t miss it!