Platform engineering for the rest of us: How 8 engineers run a multi-cell architecture

Platform engineering is often framed around large enterprises with dedicated teams and budgets. But what does it look like with just eight engineers serving global customers?

In this talk, Alex Freund, CTO of Moonware, explains how a small engineering team built a lean internal platform that enables global infrastructure provisioning and near-instant feedback cycles, without a dedicated platform organization.

He covers:
• Using Terraform to provision and manage global cell accounts
• Developing and operationalizing an i18n framework
• Creating a fully isolated end-to-end test suite (300+ live microservice tests running locally in under three minutes)
• Scaling globally without increasing headcount

This is a practical, no-theory session about building platform capabilities that punch far above their weight.