Platform Engineers Sydney

Join us for Infra governance for rule breakers: How to make guardrails invisible.

Stop being the "Department of No." Modern infrastructure governance should feel like a smooth highway, not a series of roadblocks. We’re diving into the Invisible Guardrail Approach, showing you how to bake standards directly into your workflow so developers stay compliant by default, no nagging required.

This webinar will breakdown:

- Automation over approvals: How to use OPA and env zero to replace manual PR reviews with instant, automated feedback.
- Self-destructing environments: Mastering TTLs to kill "zombie" resources and slash your cloud bill.
- Silent security: Implementing encryption and tagging standards that happen automatically during the deployment phase.

After a 30-minute session, we’ll host a 15-minute live Q&A. We encourage you to submit your questions in advance.

A recording of the webinar and related materials will be shared with all attendees after the event.

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Speakers:
Bobby Coppersmith - VP of Solutions Engineering @ env zero

Robert is a customer engineering and technical sales leader with deep experience in cloud automation and enterprise software. He is currently VP of Customer Engineering at env0, leading presales, implementation, and support teams.
Previously, Robert held senior roles at IBM and IBM Turbonomic, where he led sales engineering teams across public sector and enterprise markets. He brings a strong background in complex infrastructure, automation, and customer-facing technical leadership.

Tal Ballgobeen
Solutions Architect @ env zero

Tal is a dedicated Support Engineer with 6 years of experience across technical support, cloud engineering, and cybersecurity. He has held roles at Cycode and Amdocs, and previously served in Israel’s Military Intelligence Unit 8200.
Tal brings strong hands-on experience in SaaS environments and software development, and is known for working closely with cross-functional teams including Customer Success, R&D, Product, UX/UI, Sales, and Marketing—to deliver reliable, high-quality customer support.

Ingress controllers are the front door to Kubernetes, yet observability at the edge is often overlooked. As ingress-nginx approaches deprecation, platform teams must reassess ingress choices and their OpenTelemetry support. This session introduces a draft OpenTelemetry maturity framework and applies it to popular ingress controllers to reveal strengths, gaps, and trade-offs.

This webinar will explore:

• How to evaluate OpenTelemetry support beyond “does it emit telemetry” using a draft, multi-dimensional maturity framework covering integration surface, semantics, trace modeling, multi-signal correlation, and stability.
• Why ingress observability is critical for platform teams, and how missing or incorrect edge telemetry breaks distributed traces, latency attribution, and root-cause analysis.
• What today’s ingress controllers get right - and wrong through real-world evaluations of widely used controllers, highlighting practical implications for platform design, migration decisions, and future observability architectures.

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:
Kasper Borg Nissen - Principal Developer Advocate @ Dash0

Kasper Borg Nissen is a Principal Developer Advocate at Dash0, former KubeCon+CloudNativeCon Co-Chair, Golden Kubestronaut, and a CNCF Ambassador with deep experience in platform engineering and observability. He focuses on OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes infrastructure, and observability as a platform capability. Kasper is a frequent speaker at KubeCon and CNCF events and is actively involved in shaping OpenTelemetry adoption across the cloud-native ecosystem.

Join Mallory Haigh in unpacking platform politics. She will break down how platform leaders can win executive buy-in, influence stakeholders, and align platform roadmaps with business goals. Learn how to translate technical work into ROI, risk reduction, and competitive advantage, so your Internal Developer Platform gets funded, adopted, and scaled.

In this webinar, we will cover:

• How to win executive buy-in by translating platform work into ROI, risk reduction, and strategic business outcomes.
• How to influence without authority by tailoring your message to each stakeholder group and building champions across teams.
• How to align vision to roadmap by defining measurable milestones and keeping your platform strategy synced with shifting business priorities.

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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 a workshop host for Platform Engineering community, and a platform therapist at Humanitec. With a background in customer success, full-stack software engineering, and engineering management, she focuses on the strength of intersection of humans and technology. She brings a passion for education, the anthropological approach to human-computer interaction, and improving developer experience to her work on dozens of platforms of all sizes over the last few years. When not connecting people with their platforms, Mallory is an avid equestrian and hobby farmer, and also a cat and dog mom.