Hands-on workshop
Live Day Sydney
Selling the invisible: Shaping the platform engineering stream at Serko
Any platform stream/team's hardest deliverable isn't software, it's belief. Platform value is structurally invisible: prevented incidents leave no evidence, and inherited standards feel like they were always there. This talk shares how Serko went from fragmentation to clear ownership: from scattered visibility, blank-page service creation, and distrusted signals to a dedicated platform stream with boundaries drawn before anything was built, DevSecOps as a continuous process, and a developer portal that became the essential single pane of glass the engineers adopted and the view leadership trusts. No gates, no status decks, shared visibility instead. Boundaries made the platform work; belief kept it alive.
Oct 28, 2026
Any platform stream/team's hardest deliverable isn't software, it's belief. Platform value is structurally invisible: prevented incidents leave no evidence, and inherited standards feel like they were always there. This talk shares how Serko went from fragmentation to clear ownership: from scattered visibility, blank-page service creation, and distrusted signals to a dedicated platform stream with boundaries drawn before anything was built, DevSecOps as a continuous process, and a developer portal that became the essential single pane of glass the engineers adopted and the view leadership trusts. No gates, no status decks, shared visibility instead. Boundaries made the platform work; belief kept it alive.