Platform Engineers Medellín (CO)

Join experts from Google, Sixt, and Thoughtworks for a practical discussion on metrics that matter for platform engineering. Anchored in the latest DORA Report, this webinar explores how to connect engineering metrics with business outcomes, measure ROI, and define success for platform teams.

What metrics truly matter for platform engineering? In this session, panelists will unpack key insights from the 2025 DORA Report and share how leaders can move beyond the basics to measure the real impact of their platforms. Attendees will learn:

• How DORA and emerging frameworks like EEBO help connect platform work to business outcomes
• Practical approaches for measuring ROI and justifying platform investment
• Which metrics help platform teams demonstrate success and drive developer productivity

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:
Rickey Zachary - Global Engineering Platforms Lead @ Thoughtworks
For more than 15 years, Rickey has worked across both the public and private sectors, designing and developing large-scale, mission-critical software systems. He has had the opportunity to contribute to highly secure government agencies and extremely early-stage startups—both environments offering unique and interesting challenges that have shaped his career.

Kaspar von Grünberg - CEO @ Humanitec
Kaspar is an early pioneer in platform engineering. Over the last decade he has been building Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) at scale, and is responsible for coining the term IDP. A regular speaker on the topic of platform engineering, Kaspar is the author of several associated defining articles. He is also the founder and CEO of Humanitec, the company behind Score and the Platform Orchestrator which is now the centerpiece at the majority of dynamic IDPs.

Boyan Dimitrov - CTO @ Sixt
Boyan Dimitrov is the CTO of SIXT, responsible for the company’s tech vision and strategy. He oversees SIXT's engineering hubs in Munich, Bangalore, Kiev, and Lisbon. Prior to joining SIXT in 2015, Boyan had a long career in the startup ecosystems in the UK and Bulgaria. He has over 15 years of experience in cloud and distributed systems and has successfully delivered mission critical services and digital transformations in the mobility, security, and finance areas.

James Brookbank - Cloud Solutions Architect Manager @ Google Cloud
James Brookbank is a cloud solutions architect manager at Google based in NYC. Solution architects help make cloud easier for Google’s customers by solving complex technical problems and providing expert architectural guidance. Before joining Google, James worked at a number of large enterprises with a focus on IT infrastructure and financial services.

Leah Rivers - Director of product @ Google
Leah Rivers is the director of product management for Google’s software foundations. She is a software engineering leader with decades of experience focusing on developers and the platforms and ecosystems crucial to their success. Her background includes working as an engineer and as an executive across a range of organizations including startups, SaaS companies, and high tech companies including AWS and Google. She cares about the power and potential of harmonizing technology with individual and social aspects of software development to drive innovation, create meaningful change, and deliver valuable software.

The Generative AI boom has led to an explosion of tools, artifacts, libraries, and models - all of which now need to be managed, updated, secured, and scaled. Platform engineering has a huge role to play here: let’s talk about it.

Organizations around the world are suddenly trying to figure out how to use, secure, deploy, and scale a new artifact - genAI models - alongside new and existing cloud platforms. In her role at Broadcom, Tasha Drew led a team adding AI platform capabilities to VMware Cloud Foundation.

Join Tasha as she discusses the challenges platform teams can help with in this rapidly moving and growing ecosystem, and open source tools and platforms teams can use to meet those challenges.

After a 45-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:
Tasha Drew - Director of Product Engineering, AI @ Broadcom

Tasha Drew is Senior Director at Broadcom, leading the AI and Advanced Services team in the CTO’s office. She focuses on integrating AI into VMware Cloud Foundation, improving developer productivity, and advancing private AI solutions. Tasha is also active in the open-source community, especially in Kubernetes.

Agentic AI isn't just a buzzword; it's a fundamental shift in software. These intelligent, goal-driven applications operate autonomously, presenting unprecedented challenges for infrastructure teams. The old ways of building and running apps simply won't scale. Join us for this technical deep dive where we'll explore how to harness the power of Kubernetes and modern platform engineering principles to create a scalable, resilient, and observable foundation for your next-generation intelligent applications.

In this webinar, you'll learn:

• The Shift: Understand why agentic apps require a new approach to infrastructure.
• Kubernetes as the Orchestration Layer: See how core Kubernetes primitives can be used to manage the complete, often complex, lifecycle of AI agents.
• The Power of a Platform Mindset: Discover how building an internal platform streamlines workflows, ensures security, and empowers developers to build and deploy intelligent software faster than ever.

By the end of this session, you'll have a clear, actionable roadmap for transforming your infrastructure into a powerful "Agent Fabric" capable of supporting the future of AI.

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:
Abdel Sghiouar - Cloud Developer Advocate @ Google Cloud

Abdel is a senior Cloud Developer Advocate @ Google Cloud. A co-host of the Kubernetes Podcast by Google and a CNCF Ambassador. His focused areas are GKE/Kubernetes, Service Mesh, and Serverless. Abdel started his career in data centers and infrastructure in Morocco, where he is originally from, before moving to Google's largest EU data center in Belgium. Then in Sweden, he joined Google Cloud Professional Services and spent five years working with Google Cloud customers on architecting and designing large-scale distributed systems before turning to advocacy and community work.