The container platform is up to speed technically and the most advanced application teams are already running production workloads. But – legacy developers see the platform as a new operations team, are skeptical about cloud-native concepts – and on top of it, the finance team is politely asking: why do we actually need a team of platform engineers? After all, “you build it, you run it”?
This session will present the speaker’s learnings in platform engineering, consulting and sales engineering roles and show how adopting product management practices can improve the situation. In a banking context, it will explain how to clarify the value and benefits of your container platform for developers and other stakeholders, especially by creating a platform architecture that is not only focused on technical features. It will also share how DKB tackled the challenge of bringing a product mindset to an infrastructure team.
Speaker
Stéphane Di Cesare
Senior Platform Engineer, Platform Experience @DKB, Aspiring Platform-as-Product Specialist
Stéphane Di Cesare is a Senior Platform Engineer in the Platform Experience team at the German online bank DKB, where he is helping to increase the adoption of the bank's cloud native platform.
Stéphane is focusing on bridging the gap between engineering and users by making the value of technology clear, and helping bringing a product mindset to the platform.
He has background with technology consulting at Accenture, infrastructure engineering at VMware, and in Sales Engineer, Support Engineer and QA Engineer roles.
