Ian Nowland is currently a cofounder at a stealth mode startup, and has just finished co-authoring a book on Platform Engineering, to be published by O'Reilly. He has been in the industry for 24 years, most recently at Datadog where he led a 700 person Platform Engineering organization. Prior to that he spent 8 years in AWS where he was the lead engineer on the launch of EMR, and then the leader of the first 5 years of the EC2 Nitro project.