Engineering Culture Change with Stack Overflow’s Peter O’Connor

Platform Engineering Podcast

Join us as we learn about Stack Overflow's monumental shift from on-premises infrastructure to the cloud with Peter O'Connor, Director of Platform Engineering. Peter shares invaluable insights on navigating the complexities of migrating a beloved developer platform, balancing technical challenges with team dynamics, and fostering a culture of innovation. From the intricacies of lift-and-shift strategies to the nuances of adopting microservices, this episode offers a masterclass in modern platform engineering. Discover how Stack Overflow is revolutionizing its architecture while maintaining its core mission of serving developers worldwide.

Guest: Peter O'Connor, Director of Platform Engineering at Stack Overflow

Peter leads teams of engineers dedicated to innovating how they elevate their product engineering teams, enabling them to deploy services to the cloud with greater ease and confidence. Their focus spans the cloud platform, UI platform, and search platform.

With a rich background in innovating new workflows, leveraging cutting-edge tools, and leading teams to achieve better outcomes, Peter has found creating platforms as products for their engineering teams to be a rewarding challenge in his career.

Before transitioning into tech, he freelanced and taught Chemistry and Computer Science at both secondary and collegiate levels. This experience deepened his understanding of guiding teams, building the right products, and fostering continual improvement among team members.

Peter O’Connor - Stack Overflow

Stack Overflow

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