What is a Platform Engineer? Interview with Martin Lechner @PersonioHR

Martin Lechner is Lead Platform Engineer at Personio, Germany's most successful HR tech company. Before, Martin worked at Twitter and AutoScout24 in various software engineering and leading positions. In this interview, Martin provides insights to his career journey and about the role as Platform Engineer. He describes the tasks and responsibilities and how his work is measured.

📸 Photo credits to Andreas Gregor.

#platform #engineer #personio

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👉 CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
2:35 Home Office vs. Onsite
4:00 Allianz Arena vs. Wiesn vs. English Garden
5:21 MacOs vs. Linux
6:42 Advanced Scala with Cats vs. Better Allies
8:45 Espresso vs. Manual Brew
10:40 Working at Personio
12:06 Martin's career journey
14:33 First experience with platform engineering
18:00 What is platform engineering?
22:51 you build it, you run it principle
23:50 Platform teams only for big organizations?
27:21 Being a Software Engineer at Twitter
29:00 Why platform engineering?
30:50 Software Engineering vs. Platform Engineering
33:00 Measuring Developer Experience
35:30 Tasks of a Lead Platform Engineer
36:14 Coding
40:00 Time at Meetings
41:52 Concept & Design
43:00 Training
43:40 Influencing
45:26 Justify the existence of the team?
48:27 Tips for recruiters
52:21 Recommendations for future platform engineers
55:11 Ending

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