We work in the IoT space at Electrolux Group, leader in Home Appliance industry, scaling from 10 to 300 developers with just 5 Ops engineers in 4 years. Along the way, we faced challenges in promoting SRE principles to development teams. This led us to transition from SRE to Platform Engineering. In this talk, we’ll share how we built an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) integrated with our cloud and toolchains, embedding SRE principles into its foundation. This platform enables developers to autonomously create and manage infrastructure and services while adhering to best practices and security standards. This newfound autonomy boosted developer productivity, enabling them to spin up new regions in a single day, rather than relying on approval processes. In this talk, we'll discuss Electrolux's journey from a traditional SRE model to platform engineering. We'll cover the challenges they faced with their initial SRE model, including scalability and a lack of self-service capabilities for developers. We'll then delve into how they addressed these challenges by automating common requests, moving workload to SaaS solutions, and building an internal developer platform. Finally, we'll explore how they open-sourced their developer platform, making it available to the wider community
Kristina Kondrashevich is SRE Product Manager at Electrolux. In my life, I have been responsible for writing code, managing teams, and improving delivery processes. Today, as a PM, I support my Platform team to bring traditional product management practices into our way of working. My primary objective is to prioritize the satisfaction of developers within my organization, viewing them as consumers and striving to enhance their overall experience. I like to read and have a profound love for lifelong learning. Exploring new ideas, concepts, and perspectives is something that truly ignites my curiosity.
Gang Luo has spent over six years building and leading distributed teams, introducing Chaos Engineering, and adopting cloud-native and SRE best practices to enhance service reliability and scalability. His tenure at Salesforce included designing large-scale automated testing and deployment platforms, saving significant resources while maintaining exceptional system performance and availability. Gang holds a Master's in Software Engineering and Management from Linköping University and has earned multiple awards for his technical contributions and innovation.