Platform Engineers Vancouver

As AI reshapes software development, platform engineering teams must adopt AI-powered tools, including autonomous agents, or risk falling behind. Learn how Palo Alto Networks has transformed its platform engineering practice, using AI to autonomously execute 89,000+ production changes with zero incidents, saving thousands of engineering hours and $3.5M in cloud costs.

Discover Palo Alto Networks’ comprehensive transformation:

• Learn their framework for integrating AI across the software development lifecycle, from requirements to autonomous operations, empowering thousands of engineers with AI-powered tools
• How they're managing Kubernetes infrastructure at scale with autonomous agents, making optimization decisions without human intervention while ensuring reliability and performance
• Get a step-by-step guide to safely implementing autonomous agents in both dev/test and production environments, with a live demonstration of their approach

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:
Ramesh Nampelly, Sr. Director of Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Engineering, Palo Alto Networks
Ramesh is an experienced engineering leader driving user-centric solutions, cloud platforms, SRE, and infrastructure teams for cutting-edge technology products. Ramesh currently leads cloud infrastructure and platform engineering at Palo Alto Networks, where his team is responsible for building internal platforms to help developers and SREs enhance their productivity. Prior to joining Palo Alto Networks, Ramesh was the Head of Engineering Effectiveness at Cohesity.

Suresh Mathew, CEO and Founder, Sedai
Suresh Mathew is the CEO and Founder of Sedai, an autonomous cloud management platform. Prior to Sedai, Suresh was a Sr. MTS Architect at Paypal where he built an AI/ML-driven platform that autonomously detected and resolved performance and availability issues, executing over 2 million remediations a year and becoming the only trusted system to operate independently in production during peak holiday traffic. During his career, he has contributed to multiple publications and holds patents in the field of infrastructure and distributed systems.

Platform Engineering revolves around finding the most suitable abstraction for the complex challenges encountered during the development process. With Crossplane, you can establish one such abstraction layer for cloud infrastructure and application deployment across multiple providers. It is built on the stable Kubernetes API, known for its reliability over recent years.

This webinar will illustrate how to structure your processes using Crossplane compositions, fostering a cohesive approach where Developers and the Platform Team share clear responsibilities. Moreover, we will explore the integration of Crossplane with GitOps Tooling like ArgoCD, enabling a comprehensive full end-to-end GitOps approach to eradicate configuration drift and streamline your deployments.

The webinar will demonstrate:

• How to structure the workflow using Crossplane compositions. We show you how to achieve a state of shared responsibility between developers and the Platform Team, enabling collaboration and efficient resource management.
• The integration of Crossplane with GitOps tooling like ArgoCD. Attendees will be introduced to the concept of full end-to-end GitOps, which eliminates configuration drift in deployments and ensures a seamless, automated workflows for developers.
• An example on how to effectively implement Crossplane in their platform engineering strategy, optimize resource management, and leverage full end-to-end GitOps for streamlined deployment processes.

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:
Jonas Hecht, Solution Architect, codecentric AG
DevOps, Continuous Delivery & Automation Enthusiast; Spring Boot lover & Open Source guy working at codecentric

In this webinar, Mallory will guide you through the essentials of platform engineering, focusing on building your Minimum Viable Platform (MVP). She'll offer a clear, step-by-step approach to help you launch your MVP and evolve it into a robust, enterprise-ready solution.

In this webinar, Mallory will discuss:

• The essential components of an MVP and how to build it effectively
• Common pitfalls to avoid in MVP development
• Effective strategies for scaling your platform and securing 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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Mallory Haigh, Director of Customer Success at Humanitec
Mallory's role invovles full-stack software engineering, engineering management, and focusing 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 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.