Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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Diego Quiroga is Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft. He brings over 20 years of industry experience and in this keynote, focuses on his past 2.5 years at Viva Engage (Yammer) leading the Platform Team.
After defining the concept of 'Platform Teams', their mission, He shares various tactics he implemented at Microsoft in the past 2.5 years that helped make his team successful. Diego's tactics focus on going from a "dependencies" model to a "self-service" model when it comes to platform engineering, building up capacity along the way.

00:10 Introduction and Background
01:18 Understanding Platform Engineering Teams
04:02 Introduction to Viva Engage (Yammer)
06:00 Challenges and Solutions in Platform Team Operations
07:18 Improving Platform Team Operations: First Iteration
10:31 Improving Platform Team Operations: Second Iteration
17:44 Platform Team Landscape Today and Future Goals
19:37 Concluding Remarks and Q&A

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This talk was recorded at Elevate 2023, Plato's flagship engineering leadership conference hosted in San Francisco on Nov 7 and 8 2023.