The director of engineering for a Fortune 20 automotive company shares his thoughts on the latest in cloud-native technologies for platform engineers during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025. He also discusses ways platform engineering can address common cybersecurity risks, including software supply chain security. Finally, Saxena gives his insights on the opportunities and challenges AI presents for platform engineering pros and the developers they serve.

Featuring: Gaurav Saxena, director of engineering, Fortune 20 automotive company

In today’s episode, we’ll cover…

Cloud-native infrastructure automation tools for platform engineering including Crossplane, OpenTelemetry and KubeVela
Software supply chain security tools including Sigstore
AI agent networking and the Envoy AI Gateway project

and more!

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