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Platform Engineering to Product Engineering: Enabling SaaS through Developer Experience
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Platform Engineering to Product Engineering: Enabling SaaS through Developer Experience

Wed, April 22 at 3:40 PM - 4:10 PM GMT+5:30ArchitectureBackEndTechLead

As organisations evolve toward SaaS, the ability to onboard clients quickly and consistently across products becomes a key differentiator. Achieving this requires more than standardisation. It requires strong coordination between platform engineering, product engineering, and developer experience.

Platform engineering provides the foundation through standardised domain models, APIs, and shared capabilities. Product engineering builds on this to deliver client-facing services and onboarding workflows. Developer experience ensures these capabilities are easy to adopt and use. This session explores how these three disciplines work together to enable effective SaaS delivery. Using real-world examples from domain-driven platforms, the talk shows how treating the platform as a product, through scaffolding, pre-integrated services, and simplified data conversion, reduces developer friction and improves adoption.

The session also highlights how generative AI can enhance developer experience by assisting with data mapping, generating integration code, and providing context-aware guidance, making onboarding faster and more intuitive.

What You Will Learn

  • How platform engineering, product engineering, and developer experience work together to enable SaaS
  • Why standardisation alone is not sufficient and how to design for developer adoption
  • How to build platforms as products using scaffolding, pre-integrated services, and simplified onboarding

Who Should Attend

  • Platform engineers and architects
  • Product engineering teams building domain services
  • Engineering leaders driving SaaS transformation
  • Developers working with shared platforms, APIs, and domain models

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About the speaker

Sarath Gollapalli

Sarath Gollapalli

Vice President, Technology, Broadridge

Sarath is an engineering-focused enterprise leader with extensive experience leading large-scale engineering organizations and building scalable, high-quality systems. His expertise spans enterprise architecture, application modernization, and end-to-end software delivery across the SDLC. He brings a strong focus on system design, non-functional requirements, and platform-based engineering to drive reliable and predictable outcomes at scale.

Sarath is also actively exploring emerging areas such as AI and GenAI, and how they can be applied within enterprise systems to enable innovation and efficiency. He is passionate about enabling engineering teams to adopt modern practices, improve system resilience, and accelerate delivery through better design and reuse.

As a leader and mentor, Sarath is committed to building high-performing teams and fostering a culture of engineering excellence and continuous learning.

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