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Welcome to Platform Engineers Toronto!
This is a group for engineers to learn and discuss all things internal tooling, platform teams and internal developer platforms. Every week, we interview some of the best DevOps minds in the industry.
We recently launched our new home, where you can find expert talk recordings, platform tooling resources and links to upcoming events. Check it out at https://platformengineering.org/
Our Slack community is the largest dedicated platform engineering community out there. If you want to dive deeper and connect with other platform nerds 👉 join here!
If you would like to speak at one of our meetups, use this form to submit a talk request.
Good to have you onboard!
Upcoming events
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- Network event

Why most migrations fail: The untold costs impacting platform teams
·OnlineOnline191 attendees from 40 groups* Please register here
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 resilienceAfter 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 @ CloudbeesLoreli 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.
4 attendees from this group - Network event

How to benchmark your platform: Quantify your pain (& solve it)
·OnlineOnline136 attendees from 40 groups* Please register here
The majority of platform teams are struggling with bad alignment, missing success metrics & ROI proof, or low adoption / weak developer experience, and more. Join Mallory Haigh for a practical walkthrough of the Platform Benchmarking Survey to help understand that pain, and how to avoid it. She will reveal your platform’s friction and maturity, and how to turn “pain” into a clear, prioritized roadmap for adoption, alignment, and measurable impact.
In this webinar, we will cover:
- How platform benchmarking helps quantify misalignment, silos, and invisible friction
- Why lack of success metrics and ROI proof keeps platform teams stuck
- How to turn platform pain into a clear, aligned roadmap for impact
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:
Mallory Haigh - Workshop host @ Platform EngineeringMallory 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
4 attendees from this group - Network event

Operationalizing AI Agents in regulated industries for scale and safety
·OnlineOnline168 attendees from 40 groupsPlease register here!
Join an in-depth session for platform teams in regulated industries as we explore how to run AI coding agents in real production environments. Learn why governance is an infrastructure problem, how workspace-level controls enable speed at scale, and what it takes to operationalize AI agents without sacrificing security, compliance, or auditability at the most secure industries around.
In this webinar, we will discuss:
- How regulated teams move AI coding agents from experimentation to production with infrastructure-first governance.
- How workspace-level controls, human/agent privilege separation, and early visibility enable safe, compliant scale.
- How to design and roll out an agent-ready platform (control plane, boundaries, human-in-the-loop) and measure ROI, auditability, and cost.
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 EngineeringSam 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.
3 attendees from this group
Past events
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