Platform Engineering... Why?!?! [S2E2]

Brian Chambers

Brian Chambers is the Chief Architect at Chick-fil-A, Inc. in Atlanta, GA. He and his team are responsible for collaborating with teams across Chick-fil-A’s business to help with applying technology to business challenges. Brian is passionate about the role of the Architect, Cloud and Edge computing, and making smart tradeoffs in technology solutions. Brian writes a weekly Substack called Chamber of Tech Secrets and is active on LinkedIn, in the tech conference community, and on Chick-fil-A’s Tech Blog.

[feel free to link the writing stuff above if you wish]

• Brian’s Blog: Chamber of Tech Secrets
• Chick-fil-A Tech Blog

Tracy 'Trac' Bannon

Passionate Architect!!! Tracy (Trac) Bannon is a Senior Principal with MITRE Labs. She is an accomplished software architect, engineer, and DevSecOps advisor having worked across commercial and government clients. She thrives on understanding complex problems and working to deliver value at speed.

She’s passionate about mentoring and training and enjoys community and knowledge-building with teams, clients and the next generation. Trac guest lectures at universities leads working groups, and shares experience stories.

Trac is a long-time advocate for diversity in technology, helping to narrow the gaps as a mentor, sponsor, volunteer, and friend.

Ms. Bannon is a featured industry speaker, blogger, author, and accomplished podcaster including 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 and 𝗜𝘁’𝘀 𝟱𝟬𝟱! 𝗗𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 (part of Sourced Network Production).

She podcasts with RoadToDevHops, blogs at https://tracybannon.tech, and is active on LinkedIn and in the Twitterverse near you.