Arthur Freyman is Director of Engineering at ZipRecruiter, where he leads the Core infrastructure and platform organization, focusing on cloud-native architectures, reliability, and developer experience. Active in infrastructure, security, and operations for multiple decades, he has held senior engineering and leadership roles at companies including Foursquare, Riot Games, Spokeo, and uSamp, and has consulted for enterprises such as Disney, DirecTV, Kroger, and L3 Communications. His work centers on building secure, resilient platforms at scale and enabling teams to deliver software quickly and safely. 

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Build a Better Loop: A Guide to Platform Engineering

From scrappy sysadmins and early SRE teams to DevOps and today’s platform engineering wave, this talk traces how operations have evolved—and why the next frontier is treating your platform as a real internal product for developers. This talk will unpack what a modern platform actually is (and isn’t), show how ideas like Team Topologies, golden paths, and “glue as a service” fit together, and share concrete strategies for success: adopting a product mindset, obsessing over developer experience, measuring with DevEx/DORA-style signals, and ruthlessly stripping away incidental complexity so autonomous teams can move faster with less coordination. You’ll leave with a practical mental model and a set of patterns you can apply immediately to build a better loop between developers, platform, and the business. 

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