When starting out as a fresh DevOps engineer, you quickly learn the importance of automation, continuous integration and deployment, continuous improvement - and, of course, the inevitable mountain of YAML files. Before long, one steps into the world of Kubernetes, only to find in it even more YAML, along with new concepts like microservices, orchestration, and the complexities of platform engineering, especially when juggling the needs of multiple teams at once.

As your career grows and vocabulary expands with fancy concepts, like team topologies, domain-driven design and cognitive load, you often wonder how to make sense of it all and actually apply those ideas to the practical tasks in front of you. Now as a Senior Platform Engineer with her team to lead, Linda will share insights on how her mindset had to evolve with each job title. From DevOps to Platform Engineering, she’ll walk you through the shifts required in designing technical solutions and bring those high-level concepts to life with real-world stories.