How can a software engineer get a world-wind education on the practical tools and tactics of experienced product managers to apply to their own internal platform or developer experience?

With the growing trend of internal tooling teams, often called “platform” or “developer experience”, these teams vary in their size and maturity, from one engineer who cares deeply about developer experience, to funded and strategic platform teams.

A best practice has emerged called “platform as a product”—to applying product and design thinking to platforms. But, how do we practically do that? In this talk Lou will share practical and hands-on tips, advice, tools and techniques for platform teams of any maturity to apply product thinking internally.

Lou previously worked building on platform and developer experience at DAZN and now works as a PM for Gitpod, building developer tools for the masses.

With everything moving to the cloud, why haven’t our development environments? In fact, they already have!

With CDEs (Cloud Development Environments) you get all the power of the cloud: elasticity, scale and security, but for your dev environment.

Gitpod’s “Dedicated” deployment model enables companies sensitive code and access to never leave their cloud account perimiter.

Building on Jim’s intro to CodeWhisperer, Lou will give a 101 on CDEs and how architectural deployment models like Gitpod Dedicated can accelerate the adoption of Generative AI in an organisational setting by resolving many of the security, audit, privacy and data concerns.

Join us also after the talk to dig into the intersection of CDEs and Generative AI over a drink or two!