How to build a successful Platform Engineering team • Eran Bibi • PlatformCon 2022

They say there's no such thing as a talent shortage, but building a great platform engineering team remains no easy feat. This talk will share lessons learned from firsthand experience, to help you scale your platform teams, and even help you think out of the box with your potential candidates.

When companies start to scale, one of the core pieces of ensuring business continuity is the SLA of the infrastructure your applications are running on. When you're scaling a company from the ground up, many times one of the greatest challenges is actually learning to grow your teams, in a very competitive hiring landscape, where there is a consistent talent shortage.

In this talk Eran will share his experience from building successful platform engineering teams over the last decade at a number of unicorns and global companies, across multiple time zones. How he identified the right candidates, and sometimes candidates that were seemingly not the right fit, but delivered immense value. Eran will dive into some of the common misconceptions and confusion around platform engineering vs. SRE, how to delegate roles and responsibilities that map to the right skill set, as well as how to measure success by defining the correct KPIs for your team.

Speaker: Eran Bibi, CPO & Co-Founder at Firefly.

Bio: Eran Bibi is Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer at Firefly. With years of experience in anything DevOps/SRE and security, he has earned a reputation as a CI/CD and SRE expert and an avid admin of Cloud Platforms and containerized environments.

Prior to Firefly, Eran was Head of DevOps & Cloud Platform at Aqua Security and DevOps Group Lead at Finastra. Eran is a frequent speaker at Cloud Native meetups, AWS community meetups, and other cloud workshops and conferences.