https://www.infoq.com InfoQ Culture & Methods Presentations feed https://www.infoq.com/presentations/framework-best-practices-startup/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Culture+%26+Methods-presentations <img src="https://res.infoq.com/presentations/framework-best-practices-startup/en/mediumimage/medium-1779194881438.jpeg"/><p>Trisha Ballakur discusses her journey from a backend software engineer to CTO and CEO, using her startup Pointz as a case study. She explains how to implement bottom-up customer discovery to find product-market fit, effectively delegate to global contractors to reduce build times, customize open-source repos like Valhalla, and apply engineering test-case models to business development.</p> <i>By Trisha Ballakur</i> Transcripts QCon San Francisco 2025 Best Practices Startup Culture & Methods presentation Thu, 28 May 2026 12:33:00 GMT https://www.infoq.com/presentations/framework-best-practices-startup/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Culture+%26+Methods-presentations Trisha Ballakur 2026-05-28T12:33:00Z /presentations/framework-best-practices-startup/en https://www.infoq.com/presentations/insurance-platform-engineering/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Culture+%26+Methods-presentations <img src="https://res.infoq.com/presentations/insurance-platform-engineering/en/mediumimage/sergiu-petean-medium-1779181418266.jpeg"/><p>Sergiu Petean discusses the strategic journey of evolving DevOps into platform engineering within heavily regulated enterprise environments. He explains how to maximize efficiency using dynamic reference architectures, align platform KPIs directly with board-level business goals, reduce cognitive load via custom team topologies, and maintain innovation sovereignty through open-source technology.</p> <i>By Sergiu Petean</i> Transcripts Platform Engineering Innovation InfoQ Dev Summit Munich 2025 Culture & Methods presentation Mon, 25 May 2026 11:35:00 GMT https://www.infoq.com/presentations/insurance-platform-engineering/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Culture+%26+Methods-presentations Sergiu Petean 2026-05-25T11:35:00Z /presentations/insurance-platform-engineering/en