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World Congress 2025 • Aug 20, 2025 • Session details

Empowering Thousands of Developers: Our Journey to an Internal Developer Platform

Bastian Heilemann , Bruno Margula

Zeiss united 6,000 developers without enforcing a single organizational mandate. Discover how their product-centric internal developer platform eliminated architectural fragmentation and drastically reduced engineering cognitive load.

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#1 about 5 min

Scale and diversity of software development teams

How a large optics and technology enterprise coordinates thousands of engineers across varied technical domains.

#2 about 4 min

Developer cognitive load and fragmented tooling challenges

Addressing the friction and delivery slowdowns caused by tool fragmentation, ownership boundaries, and shift-left expectations.

#3 about 7 min

Structuring platforms to standardize complex engineering environments

Layering self-service catalogs, fleet management, and architectural decision records into a unified developer portal.

#4 about 3 min

Specialized internal platforms for generative AI and data

Providing secure, compliant access to AI model gardens and centralized data governance frameworks.

#5 about 6 min

Architecture of the cloud native web application platform

Building a multi-region, Kubernetes-based framework that offers automated tenant provisioning and self-service deployments.

#6 about 3 min

Replacing legacy publishing with composable micro frontends

Integrating React-based micro frontends into existing content management systems to accelerate onboarding and deployment times.

#7 about 4 min

Automating fleet management and large scale codebase updates

Utilizing automated tooling to handle day-two operations like fleet-wide linting updates and user interface library migrations.

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Summarizing the organizational benefits of platform engineering

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Pivoting product strategy toward platform engineering

Alejandro Albuerne Alejandro Albuerne · World Congress 2026 Europe

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Designing internal developer platforms and product team responsibilities

Romano Roth Romano Roth · World Congress 2025

1:43 min

Platform engineering as the foundation for scaling AI tools

Julia Kordick Julia Kordick · World Congress 2026 Europe

3:20 min

Architecting the platform with modern cloud and mobile technologies

Tom George · LIVE

3:57 min

Scaling engineering teams using internal developer platforms

Moataz Nabil Moataz Nabil · World Congress 2026 Europe

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