
Ole Lensmar
Co-Founder & CTO, Testkube
Ole Lensmar began building with XML APIs in the late 1990s and has since worked across a wide range of technologies and startups. He is best known as the creator of SoapUI (2004) and as chairman of the Swagger / OpenAPI Initiative (2015). He joined Testkube at its inception in 2021 and now focuses fully on advancing its mission to bring continuous testing to the cloud-native ecosystem. When he is not at his laptop, he can likely be found playing guitar or riding his bike, but rarely both at the same time.
Ole
at PlatformCon
Showcase
Virtual
Jun 23, 2026
11:00
CEST
05:00
EDT
45
mins
Testing as a control plane: Kubernetes-native patterns for platform teams
What if test execution lived alongside your infra control plane? This session explores architectural patterns for treating tests as Kubernetes-native workloads across clusters with centralized governance and visibility.
Showcase
Virtual
Jun 25, 2026
17:00
CEST
11:00
EDT
45
mins
Click. Run. Validate. How to add self-service test execution to Backstage
Platform teams built golden paths for deploys, but testing is still fragmented. This session shows how to bring test execution into Backstage so developers can run, observe, and act on tests directly.
Talk
On-demand
Virtual
15
mins
Stop running tests in CI!
Platform teams run infra through control planes, but testing still lives in CI. This talk shows how teams move test execution into Kubernetes with distributed runners, policy controls, and centralized visibility.