Platform Engineering Day North America 2025
2025-11-10
Atlanta, United States
as the organisers put it
Platform Engineering Day North America 2025 has officially wrapped! Thank you to all the attendees who joined us. Watch keynotes and all breakout sessions on the CNCF YouTube Channel.
who it's for
platform engineers, engineering managers, security and compliance engineers, cloud architects, developer experience designers, site reliability engineers, developer advocates
topics
internal developer platforms (IDP); agentic AI in IDPs; GitOps pipelines with Helm; Argo CD GitOps deployments; Crossplane multi-tenant provisioning; vCluster virtual control planes; Karpenter autoscaling and GPU allocation; PCI compliant Kubernetes deployments; Backstage developer portals; OpenTelemetry for platform observability
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Platform Engineering Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks | Paula Kennedy, Matt Menzenski | 06m |
Welcome remarks set expectations: this is the fourth edition of Platform Engineering Day, run as a two-track schedule that focuses on principles and practices… | ||
| Integrating Agentic AI Into Internal Developer Platforms To Minimize Errors and Downtime | Lin Sun, Sara Qasmi | 27m |
A GitOps pipeline enhancement that uses kagent agents and an LLM to run semantic validation on PRs, invoked by a GitHub Action, that pulls and does Helm… | ||
| Sponsored Keynote: AI-Ready Platforms: Scaling Teams Without Scaling Costs | Saiyam Pathak | 06m |
Platform engineers face GPU scarcity, noisy-neighbor etcd limits (example: a team creating 3,000 secrets starving others), and costly per-team clusters. The… | ||
| Sponsored Keynote: Resilience by Design: Automating Reliability in Cloud-Native Architectures | Ekim Maurer | 05m |
Claims an automated IT resilience platform called IBM Concert that uses architecture diagrams, runbooks and app artifacts to generate resilience profiles and… | ||
| Introducing the Platform Maturity Assessment | Chris Plank, Corbin Pacheco | 27m |
A one‑page web assessment converts the Platform Maturity Model into a quick diagnostic that scores five dimensions — investment, adoption, interfaces… | ||
| There Is No Silver Bullet: The Complexities of Building IDPs | Max Espinoza | 29m |
An internal developer platform is more integration and policy work than picking tech: an IDP at Viasat runs on EKS + Cilium + Apigee with Terraform for… | ||
| Function and Form: The Case for UI/UX Design as a Platform Engineering Superpower | Colin Griffin, Ryan Hallak | 26m |
Argues that adding UX to platform engineering raises adoption by 25% adoption increase, cuts onboarding and speeds delivery by applying empathize → define →… | ||
| Platform Engineering Is the Key Lever for Sustainable Cloud Infrastructure | Ramiro Berrelleza, Nancy Chauhan | 24m |
Platform teams drive a concrete win: moving workloads from AMD to ARM on EKS through platform defaults and sandboxes yields measurable savings — one large… | ||
| Panel: Composable Platforms in the Real World: What Works, and What Really Doesn't | Valentina Rodriguez Sosa, Colin Lacy, Simon Forster | 33m |
Panelists compare real deployments: teams report a platform advertised as composable that actually blocks external images behind an undocumented admission… | ||
| Building PCI Compliant Kubernetes Platforms - Demystified, Fun, and Possible | Julien Semaan, Tarun Chinmai Sekar | 29m |
Claims a repeatable PCI path built on GitOps and Zero Trust by provisioning per-tenant clusters with Crossplane + Argo CD and automating RK2 installs via… | ||
| From Duct Tape To Declarative: Playtika's Platform Overhaul at Unicorn Scale | Scott Rosenberg, Shemer Mashiach | 25m |
Playtika replaces sprawling Ansible and Jenkins hacks with an OSS stack: ClusterAPI + Spectro Cloud for cluster lifecycle, GitOps with FluxCD for all… | ||
| Kubernetes-Powered Platform Engineering: From IaC To API-Driven Infrastructure | Amine Hilaly, Jesse Butler | 24m |
Claim: a Kubernetes-native primitive (Kro + ArgoCD + ACK) lets teams declare infrastructure and apps as prescriptive resources using a Resource Graph… | ||
| Platforming the Platform: Running Our IDP With Our IDP | Andrew Sail, Lauren Roshore | 15m |
Spotify runs its Backstage-based IDP Portal on itself so the platform is both product and customer, ingesting logs and metrics via OTLP push and Prometheus… | ||
| Escape Plan: How We Survived Without EKS and Learned To Love Air-Gapped | Rotem Refael | 21m |
Migrates a production SaaS from Amazon EKS to a fully air-gapped on‑prem cluster while keeping developer workflows intact; replaces managed RDS with… | ||
| Let the Platform Build Itself: Using AI To Construct an Internal Developer Platform With CNCF Tools | Viktor Farcic, Whitney Lee | 26m |
Claim: a developer writes intent in natural language and an AI agent composes an Internal Developer Platform using CNCF tools and company policies. The demo… | ||
| Mission Platform: PolicyOps Across the Kubernetes Multi-verse | Cortney Nickerson, Prithvi Raj Venkat Raj | 26m |
Claim: combining Cordant (a control‑tower multi‑cluster platform) with Kyverno enforces declarative policies and fully automated, templated provisioning across… | ||
| Overcoming Obstacles and Building Self-service Platforms for Application Teams | Marino Wijay, Vaibhave Patel | 27m |
Platform team builds a reusable pipeline and self-service provisioning backed by Terraform-style IaC, Kanban tracking and automated CI pipelines so application… | ||
| From Chaos To Platform: A Journey Full of Unknowns | Alexandre Astolpho Thomaz | 24m |
Itaú Unibanco moves from on‑prem VM silos to a Kubernetes‑based, cell‑style multi‑cloud platform with a control manager coordinating control planes and… | ||
| From Siloed To Streamlined: The Entity Platform Story | Banu Muthukumar, Siddharth Shah | 24m |
LinkedIn builds a unified entity platform that turns months of entity provisioning into days and query development into hours by automating DB choice, service… | ||
| OpenTelemetry for Platform Engineers: Paving the Road To Self-Service Observability | Kasper Borg Nissen | 25m |
Platform engineers deploy an OpenTelemetry Collector and the operator to offer auto-instrumentation via an operator annotation so new services require no code… | ||
| You Keep Using That Word 'DevEx' - I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means | David Stenglein, Erica Hughberg | 23m |
Platform teams focus on infra but adoption stalls because developers need local cloud API access and language-native SDKs, test data management, and automated… | ||
| ⚡Lightning Talk: Data Beats Hype: A Real Look at Actual AI Adoption Rates Across the Industry | Laura Tacho | 11m |
Fresh data from 135,000 developers across 435 companies (Jul–Oct 16, 2025) shows about 91% use AI monthly and roughly 72% use it weekly or daily, but average… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Developer Advocate Plays Devil's Advocate: Platform Engineering Editi... | Ram Iyengar | 12m |
Makes a case for not building a platform by naming exact frictions: hundreds of conversations reveal executives demand proof, teams lack budget, and platform… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Letsgo: The Ultimate Platform CLI | Colin O'Dell | 10m |
SeatGeek builds letsgo, a platform CLI written in Go that packages golden paths into a binary and uses native tools like the AWS CLI, Vault, Argo, GitLab and… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Retire the Sidecar: Why Observability Needs To Ride up Front | Phil Ciampini | 05m |
Claims observability belongs at the platform edge not in sidecars and shows a working edge pipeline that inspects traffic, drops chatty coreDNS, reroutes debug… | ||
| Platform Engineering Day | Closing Remarks | Paula Kennedy, Matt Menzenski | 02m |
Closing remarks list concrete takeaways: a roll call of sponsors and thanks to contributing speakers, a QR code for feedback, and a prompt to head to the… | ||
| Sponsored Keynote: When AI Agents Trash Your Golden Path... And How to Take Back Control! -Will McMullen, Ona | Will McMullen | 05m |
AI coding agents routinely break CI pipelines, skip or cheat on tests, create duplicate PRs and accelerate config drift accelerates across uncontrolled cloud… | ||
| Panel: Shaping Platform Engineering's Future: From Community To Industry Standard Certification-Atulpriya Sharma, InfraCloud Technologies; Turja Narayan Chaudhuri, EY GDS; Faseela K, Ericsson; Chris Plank, NatWest Banking Group; Christophe Sauthier, CNCF | Atulpriya Sharma, Turja Narayan Chaudhuri, Faseela K, Chris Plank, Christophe Sauthier | 33m |
Community-built vendor-neutral certification validates the “glue” skills that single-project certs miss, mapping platform design, security, observability and… | ||
| Sponsored Keynote: Designing Self-Service Platforms that Engineers Actually Use | C.B. Bustamante | 06m |
Cortex positions an internal developer portal as a data-first catalog that pulls repos, services, and infra into a single pane to drive actionable checklists… | ||
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