Platform & Infrastructure community Finland meetup sponsored by PolarSquad

Welcome to our second meetup of the Platform and Infrastructure Community Finland!

Join us for an exciting evening with riveting talks, groovy people and tasty snacks!

Details of the talks and speakers will be announced soon, so stay tuned!

Agenda:

17:30- Open doors
18:00 - Welcoming words, Organizers
18:05 - PolarSquad introduction
18:15 - Talk 1 - TBA
19:00 - Break
19:15 - Talk 2 - Scaling Developer Experience without a Platform Team, Niko Kivelä & Jacob Lärfors, SOK
20:00 - Ending words, Organizers
20:05 - Mingling & Networking
20:30 - Event ends, pack up

Scaling Developer Experience without a Platform Team, Niko Kivelä & Jacob Lärfors, SOK

Developer Experience (DevEx) can mean different things for different people.

As a team focused on enhancing other teams' DevEx we've had to be systematic about it.
But what can a small team do to scale their work when the developers are in the hundreds?

In this talk we briefly introduce our definition and approach to DevEx at SOK.
We will share some examples of initiatives we have and things that seem to work.
The focus will be on the internal product we have built to support the growing needs of our engineers and the industry.
This is a little story of being at the right place at the right time.

Jacob is a forward-thinking engineer with a product mindset.

Having worked in many different roles, as well as founding and leading a small software consultancy, his passion still lies with helping teams and other engineers to succeed.
Currently he works as a Principal Engineer in the Developer Experience team at SOK. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jlarfors/

Niko is a technology leader with over three decades of experience in technology and two decades of working with teams, having built his career by helping others succeed. He's an engineer by heart who has been at the center of digital transformations at several industry-leading companies while dedicating extensive time to community building. https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikokivela/