MCP servers, Skills, and agents are a commodity now. But composing these primitives into production-ready developer workflows is not easy. Building the abstraction layers that help agents get the context they need, without burning tokens on low-level detail and wiring it all into a cohesive system architecture takes time. Once you've figured out the patterns, they're repeatable. This talk is about those patterns, the decisions and trade-offs you face when turning these building blocks into developer workflows. I'll demonstrate one workflow live to make it concrete: an alert fires, an agent assembles context, produces a root-cause report, helps a developer troubleshoot, and proposes a fix the platform executes. From that one workflow, I'll pull out patterns you can reuse anywhere, treating the platform as the agent's context source, letting agents express intent while the platform reconciles deterministically, scoping permissions to bound blast radius, and placing the human handoffs that keep people in the loop. These are repeatable patterns I learned building OpenChoreo, a CNCF project and they apply to any platform, not just this one.
Sameera Jayasoma is VP & Distinguished Engineer at WSO2, Creator and Lead Architect of OpenChoreo—an open-source internal developer platform built on Kubernetes and Backstage—and Lead Architect for the Ballerina Language Platform. With over 18 years at WSO2, Sameera has spearheaded major platform initiatives, including co-designing the Ballerina language spec, leading compiler architecture, and driving WSO2’s strategic adoption of Go for backend infrastructure. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he is a frequent speaker, open-source maintainer, and engineering mentor.
