Guinevere Saenger started out her professional life as a classical pianist, and after a few adventures transitioned to a second career in tech. She found her happy place in the world of SRE/platform engineering and developer tooling, and today, she works on open source cloud provider plugins for Pulumi.
Guinevere has been active in the Kubernetes community, where she has created documentation and workshops for new contributors, and served as Release Lead for the 1.17 Kubernetes release.
She is @guincodes on Bluesky, @guineveresaenger on GitHub, and can be found on the Kubernetes and Pulumi community slacks as well.
A resident of Seattle, Guinevere enjoys music, food, and the outdoors.

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What's Cooking? Recipes For A Successful Developer Platform

What is a developer platform anyway? Who should have one? What makes a good platform? How will you maintain it? Should you use Kubernetes? Vault? Mise?
Rather than recommend a specific set of technologies, this talk is about recognizing the common building blocks and best practices when building and maintaining a developer platform.
You will learn that there are common patterns and realize that you very likely already have what it takes to build a great developer platform!
 
 

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