39. The Future of Platform Engineering: AI, FinOps, and Developer Experience with Dani Matzlavi

About this episode

Matt Pacheco interviews Danny Matzlavi about the future of platform engineering and its integration with AI and cost optimization strategies.

Matt Pacheco sits down with Danny Matzlavi, VP of Engineering at Blackhawk Networks, for a deep dive into the rapidly evolving world of platform engineering. With over 25 years of experience spanning VMware, Nutanix, and fintech, Danny shares how Blackhawk has built a comprehensive platform engineering organization that unifies infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and SRE under one umbrella. They discuss cutting-edge insights on AI integration in infrastructure operations, cloud cost optimization strategies that can save 20-30% immediately, and Danny's bold prediction that platform engineering will evolve into "platform engineering in a box" within the next 3-7 years.

People in this episode

Host: Matt Pacheco

Guest: Danny Matzlavi

Topics covered

• platform engineering
• AI integration
• cloud cost optimization
• developer experience
• infrastructure operations

Keywords

• platform engineering
• AI
• FinOps
• cloud cost optimization
• developer experience
• infrastructure
• SRE
• CI/CD pipelines

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Blackhawk Networks, VMware, Nutanix, fintech

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