The Why and How of Platform Engineering with Open Source
Why and how startups, and other small teams, can apply the principles and open source tools for platform engineering. A bottom up approach will be discussed, starting from standardized developer environments using open source tools like Vagrant and pytest. A direct line will be drawn from starting at developer environments to implementing CI/CD on up to scaling and monitoring a product that includes a web application, internal data science and machine learning infrastructure, and a variety of operating systems and devices hosting an agent.
David Charboneau is the CTO of Mimoto, a cybersecurity company that detects and responds to active system-level breaches in real time. David joined Mimoto from OpenTeams, a marketplace for open source-focused software service companies, where as CTO and co-founder he led all aspects of technology and partnership.
His 20 years of experience in the software industry spans from five startups to Fortune 500 enterprises. David was a founding member of the Jazz Foundation Services Team and a founding member of Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Quartz Team.
David resides in North Carolina and is active in the global open source community.