San Francisco Platform Engineering Meetup [Hosted by Atlassian, Loft & Dragonfly]

​Join us in person during PlatformCon 2024 for San Francisco’s premier platform engineering event.

​Connect with fellow platform practitioners, learn from the best in the industry, and engage directly with our event speakers. 

​We will also offer refreshments and a chance to win great prizes in our raffle.

​📺 Meetup agenda (all times in PDT):

• ​5:00 PM: Sign in and network with fellow practitioners

• ​5:30 PM: Welcome from hosts Atlassian, Loft, & DragonflyDB

• ​5:45 PM: Panel discussion and Q&A with industry experts from Atlassian, Loft, DragonflyDB, and more! 

• ​6:30 PM: Network over refreshments and enter the raffle

• ​7:30 PM: Raffle winners announced and closing remarks

​👋🏽 Meet our panel

​Sylvestor George, Staff Engineer @ Slack: Sylvestor is an efficient, reliable, and motivated Full-Stack Developer. He currently works at Slack as a Staff Software Engineer in the DevXP team. Sylvestor has over 10 years of experience in various Software Development roles, and he loves to learn and quickly adapt new tools and technologies.

​Preeti Kota, Head of Engineering, Compass @ Atlassian: Preeti leads Engineering for Atlassian's developer experience platform, Compass. She has spent over 20 years in the engineering craft with experience in building products from scratch, developing large-scale enterprise applications, and leading global engineering teams. She's a firm believer that people are at the center of everything we do and is excited to be building Atlassian’s Developer Experience Platform based on the practices and ways of working at Atlassian Engineering.

​Lukas Gentele, CEO @ Loft Labs: Lukas is the CEO of Loft Labs, a venture-backed startup known for its open-source project vCluster, a technology for virtualizing K8s. Companies such as CoreWeave, GoFundMe, Outreach, Atlan, and many others use vCluster to increase developer velocity and reduce their cloud infrastructure costs.

​Oded Poncz, CEO @ DragonflyDB: Oded is the CEO & Co-founder of Dragonfly, the world's most performant data store for modern cloud workloads. Prior to Dragonfly, Oded was Co-founder of two startups where he served as a CTO and drove the companies to successful acquisitions. In 2010 Oded joined Google as an Engineering Manager, where he led a team working on big-data pipelines for Google+. For the last 20 years, Oded has been involved in high-scale data projects and infrastructure with a mission to simplify and accelerate data at scale.