Session Description
As Electrolux Group grew its IoT engineering organization from 10 to over 300 developers, our operations team stayed almost the same size. Traditional DevOps and SRE approaches quickly stopped scaling.
We initially adopted SRE practices, but found them difficult to apply consistently across many autonomous product teams. Instead of scaling processes or people, we chose to scale through a platform.
We built an Internal Developer Platform using Backstage, Terraform, and custom platform APIs to provide self-service infrastructure with opinionated defaults. Reliability, security, compliance, and cost controls were baked directly into the platform, allowing teams to move fast without deep operational expertise.
In this talk, we’ll share our journey from SRE to Platform Engineering, how we designed and evolved our Internal Developer Platform, and how it eventually became the foundation for our open-source project.
Speaker
Engineering Manager at Electrolux
With extensive experience in the software industry, I have worked across Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, and Site Reliability Engineering. My focus has been on building scalable platforms, enabling developer productivity, and driving operational excellence in fast-growing organizations.
Speaker
SRE Product Manager at Electrolux Group
Throughout her career, Kristina has been responsible for writing code, managing teams, and improving delivery processes. Today, as an SRE Product Manager at Electrolux Group, she supports the platform team to bring product management practices into their way of working. Her core mission is to elevate the developer experience, treating internal developers as valued users and continuously seeking ways to improve their satisfaction and efficiency. Kristina also leads key open-source initiatives at Electrolux, such as InfraKitchen and InfraWallet, fostering innovation and collaboration across the tech community.
