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aliases: ["Simone Bianchi"]
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Tier: "3rd 🥉"
Tags: ["Podcast Guest"]
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# Simone Bianchi

Platform architect at a European scale-up, leading the design and implementation of their internal developer platform. Based in Milan, Simone appeared on the podcast to discuss the emerging discipline of platform engineering, covering how to build internal developer platforms that actually get adopted, the organizational dynamics of platform teams, and the difference between platform engineering and traditional DevOps. His practical experience building a platform serving over 200 developers gave the conversation real-world grounding.

## Notes

- Deeply knowledgeable about the platform engineering space; follows the community closely and contributes to open standards discussions
- Practical and opinionated; willing to say what does not work in platform engineering, not just what does
- His framework for measuring platform adoption (developer satisfaction surveys, time-to-first-deployment) was actionable and well-received
- Being based in Milan made the recording logistics easy; they recorded in person at a local coworking space

## Collaborations

- [[25q2-podcast-season-3]] — recorded episode on internal developer platforms
- [[topic-team-leadership]] — discussed platform team organizational design and developer experience
- [[procedure-podcast-guest-outreach]] — connected through the Milan engineering community
