This DevOps Meetup is proudly hosted by Sky Czech Republic at the Butterfly Building in Karlín 🦋.
From Peacock in the US 🇺🇸 to Showmax in Africa 🌍 and Sky Showtime in Europe 🇪🇺, Sky Czech Republic builds the tech behind global streaming platforms — including live sports like the Olympics 🏅 and NFL 🏈.
Operating at this scale means solving complex DevOps challenges daily — from handling millions of concurrent users to ensuring a smooth experience across continents 🌐.
Venkatesh Durai
Title: Leading Effective Platform Engineering Teams: Bridging Management Pitfalls & Technical Excellence
In this experience-led session, I’ll share my journey from individual contributor to Head of Platform Engineering — highlighting the common pitfalls tech leaders face while building strong teams and becoming managers people want to follow 👥. We’ll dig into why the engineer-manager gap exists, how to build trust early 🤝, and what it takes to drive clarity, accountability, and motivation through effective 1:1s, delegation, and technical credibility.
We’ll also dive into the practical side of platform engineering — how to build for impact, not just infrastructure 💡. You’ll leave with actionable frameworks and real-world lessons to help you lead with intention and build platforms that deliver value 📈.
Key topics:
⭐ Team strategy: Defining a north star & building 2–3 year roadmaps
🛠 Platform vs. DevOps: Choosing the right model, building golden paths & self-service tooling
🎯 Creating value: Spotting bottlenecks & aligning with business needs
🧩 Stakeholder alignment: Building influence, trust, and better communication habits
Robert Gemrot
In this talk, we’ll dive into the technical foundations of handling secrets in modern DevOps environments 🔐. We’ll explore best practices for securely managing sensitive data such as API keys, credentials, and tokens across various stages of the development lifecycle 🔄. Topics will include secret storage strategies (e.g., Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, SOPS), secret injection techniques in CI/CD pipelines ⚙️, access control, encryption at rest and in transit, and mitigating risks like secret sprawl ⚠️.
Emrah Sifoğlu
Thinking about getting into designing distributed systems? 🧠
In this introductory talk, we’ll look at essential components and discuss how to determine the primary focus of your system — whether it’s driven by functional requirements for user interaction 👨💻 or by internal technical needs like data synchronization 🔄. While we won’t dive into topics like managing distributed database threads, our goal is to give you a foundational understanding of key concepts and the vocabulary you’ll need to ask the right questions as you move forward. Welcome! 👋
