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Ylva Fredriksson

I write about the tactical, messy realities of building and scaling technical platforms and their organisations. How to actually get investment, drive adoption, and measure impact. Experience-backed guidance from leading platform orgs at Spotify, Klarna, Volvo Cars etc.

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How to structure platform teams when you're supporting thousands of engineers

Hi Reader! I’ve scaled three different platform teams, most recently a 100-person org serving 5,000 engineers in a 45k-person company. Lots of legacy, lots of consolidation work, lots of learning what actually works (and what doesn’t). So if you’re trying to figure out how to structure platform teams at scale, or you’re wondering how much of the conventional wisdom actually holds up, this one’s for you. Let’s go. Structure by problem space, not by tool. My team covered Observability, Delivery...