Christina Kraus
12 - 13 March 2025 | Alte Kaserne Winterthur
Enable cloud-native organizations with meshcloud
Christina Kraus is the Co-Founder and CRO of meshcloud, a pioneering company in platform engineering that empowers large enterprises to build digital products faster using its meshStack platform. With deep expertise in building internal developer platforms, Christina offers valuable insights into creating secure, scalable cloud-based environments that drive digital transformation across industries. She leads meshcloud's growth division, ensuring exceptional client experiences and continuous business expansion.
Before founding meshcloud, Christina worked at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Berlin, specializing in Smart Data projects. Her academic background includes degrees in Computer Science and Business from both the Technical University of Darmstadt and the Technical University of Berlin, with study experiences in Belgium and France.
Christina Kraus is the Chairwoman of the Board for the Working Group on Cloud Services and Digital Ecosystems at the Bitkom Association, where she steers initiatives focused on advancing cloud technology and fostering digital ecosystems within Germany’s largest digital association.
Talk
Building Internal Platforms to Enhance Developer Experience
Platform Engineering is one of the top trends in the cloud-native space right now. However, while the theory behind it is quite clear, implementations are still in their early days. We condense the learnings of our extensive platform building experiences across some of Germany's largest organizations into an informative session that will guide teams in their platform journey.
Platform Engineering is here to relieve developers from the ever increasing cognitive load as the cloud-native tooling landscape grows and DevOps practices or “Shift Left” approaches expand the scope of their responsibility.
In this talk we’ll discuss how an internal platform can help you to effectively model the “new” responsibility split between developers and a platform team. We’ll talk about why developers as the internal “customers” of such platforms play a crucial role for its successful implementation and reveal typical pitfalls you should prevent on your road to a fully automated self-service developer experience.