# Platform Engineering — Sylvain Kalache URL: https://www.sylvainkalache.com/topics/platform-engineering My writing, talks, podcasts, and projects about Platform Engineering. ## Selected work - [Cliff Snyder — Senior SRE at Multimedia LLC](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/cliff-snyder-senior-sre-at-multimedia-llc.md) (2026-04-22; Humans of Reliability): From 600 to 6,000 — an 18-month transformation replacing legacy tooling with a purpose-built incident management platform, scaling operational responsibility from 600 SREs to 6,000 engineers across the org. - [Ganesh Datta — Co-Founder & CTO at Cortex](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/ganesh-datta-co-founder-cto-at-cortex.md) (2026-04-09; Humans of Reliability): AI didn't change the game, it just exposed your bottlenecks — how platform engineering and SRE teams solve identical human problems through influence rather than authority, and why AI amplifies existing bottlenecks instead of transforming operations. - [AI-First Platform Engineering: 3 Signals From PlatformCon](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/ai-first-platform-engineering-3-signals-from-platformcon.md) (2025-08-25; The New Stack): Three emerging patterns from PlatformCon that signal how AI is reshaping internal developer platforms and platform team workflows. - [Shery Brauner — SVP of Razor Group](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/shery-brauner-svp-of-razor-group.md) (2025-08-20; Humans of Reliability): Leading engineering at scale in e-commerce aggregation and the operational challenges that come with it. - [David Owczarek — Former Engineering Director](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/david-owczarek-former-engineering-director.md) (2025-06-17; Humans of Reliability): Lessons from leading engineering teams through organizational change and system migrations. - [Ryan Lockard — VP of Platform Engineering at CVS Health](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/ryan-lockard-vp-of-platform-engineering-at-cvs-health.md) (2025-05-30; Humans of Reliability): Platform engineering at healthcare scale — compliance, reliability, and developer experience. - [Cosmo Wolfe — Head of Technology at Metronome](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/cosmo-wolfe-head-of-technology-at-metronome.md) (2025-05-26; Humans of Reliability): Building reliable billing infrastructure and the unique challenges of usage-based pricing systems. - [Chase Roberts — COO at Northflank](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/chase-roberts-coo-at-northflank.md) (2025-05-14; Humans of Reliability): Operating a developer platform company and the reliability challenges of running infrastructure for others. - [Marino Wijay — Staff Solutions Architect at Kong](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/marino-wijay-staff-solutions-architect-at-kong.md) (2025-04-17; Humans of Reliability): API gateway architecture, service mesh patterns, and reliability at the network edge. - [Mark Quigley — Head of Platform Engineering](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/mark-quigley-head-of-platform-engineering.md) (2025-04-09; Humans of Reliability): Building internal developer platforms and the organizational dynamics of platform teams. - [Kaspar von Grunberg — CEO at Humanitec](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/kaspar-von-grunberg-ceo-at-humanitec.md) (2025-03-24; Humans of Reliability): The platform engineering movement, internal developer platforms, and developer self-service. - [Mariano Cocirio — Staff Software Engineer at Vercel](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/mariano-cocirio-staff-software-engineer-at-vercel.md) (2025-03-06; Humans of Reliability): Frontend infrastructure reliability, edge computing, and the operational side of Vercel's platform. - [Introducing Canyon — an AI for developer self-service](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/introducing-canyon-an-ai-for-developer-self-service.md) (2025-01-01; Platform Engineering): Canyon lets developers provision resources, troubleshoot issues, and interact with internal tooling via natural-language prompts. - [Backstage Multicluster UI for Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/backstage-multicluster-ui-for-cloud-foundry-and-kubernetes.md) (2024-11-16; The New Stack): Building a unified developer portal with Backstage that spans both Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes clusters. - [From hype to impact: How AI is reshaping platform engineering](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/from-hype-to-impact-how-ai-is-reshaping-platform-engineering.md) (2024-06-01; PlatformCon): Moving past the buzzwords — where AI is actually changing developer workflows, internal developer portals, and what it means for platform teams. - [Getting started with Platform Engineering security and compliance](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/getting-started-with-platform-engineering-security-and-compliance.md) (2024-03-18; Data Defenders Forum): How platform engineering teams can embed security and compliance into their internal developer platforms from day one. - [How to push PaaS usage beyond 12-factor apps](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/how-to-push-paas-usage-beyond-12-factor-apps.md) (2023-12-10; TechCrunch): PaaS commands a $170B share of the cloud market, yet manual deployments persist. A practical framework for workload APIs that goes beyond Heroku-style apps. - [Scaling on Kubernetes With Open Source Korifi](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/scaling-on-kubernetes-with-open-source-korifi.md) (2023-10-26; CloudNativeNow): How Korifi brings Cloud Foundry's developer experience to Kubernetes, enabling simple app scaling without deep K8s knowledge. - [Deploy Multilanguage Apps to Kubernetes with Open Source Korifi](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/deploy-multilanguage-apps-to-kubernetes-with-open-source-korifi.md) (2023-09-15; The New Stack): Using Korifi to deploy polyglot applications to Kubernetes with the simplicity of Cloud Foundry's cf push experience. - [3 Ways to Offset Kubernetes Complexity](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/3-ways-to-offset-kubernetes-complexity.md) (2023-05-18; CloudNativeNow): Practical strategies to reduce Kubernetes operational complexity — from platform abstractions to developer self-service portals. - [Overcoming Kubernetes Namespace Limitations](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/overcoming-kubernetes-namespace-limitations.md) (2023-05-02; CloudNativeNow): Kubernetes namespaces have limits. How to work around them for multi-tenant clusters, resource isolation, and organizational scaling. [All work](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/index.md)