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Paula Kennedy
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Join date: Apr 6, 2021
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Paula Kennedy is Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Syntasso, the makers of Kratix: an open-source cloud-native framework for building internal platforms. With over 20 years of experience in tech working for VMware, Pivotal, CloudCredo and more, Paula is part of the organising committee for DevOpsDays London, Kubernetes Community Days UK, FastFlowConf, and the London Platform User Group (LoPUG).
Paula is an Ambassador for Open UK, a Team Topologies Advocate and a regular speaker at several conferences and meetups. In her spare time, Paula enjoys walking her dog and attempting to run half-marathons.
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Jul 27, 2026 ∙ 2 min
Syntasso Kratix Enterprise and Syntasso Kratix Agentic Now Available on AWS Marketplace
Syntasso Kratix Enterprise (SKE) and Syntasso Kratix Agentic (SKA) are now available on the AWS Marketplace.
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Jun 29, 2026 ∙ 4 min
OSFF London 2026: Platforms, AI and Open Source Are Converging
Previous OSFF events had many discussions about whether AI would be adopted in financial services. This year, the assumption is that it will be. The questions are now about governance, security, operational resilience, and how platforms need to evolve to support it all safely.
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Feb 21, 2025 ∙ 4 min
The Platform Engineering Playbook: Insights from Paula Kennedy
Leaders embarking on a platform engineering journey should start by asking: “What is the goal of our platform engineering effort?
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Dec 17, 2024 ∙ 5 min
Platform Engineering Evolution: Trends and Future Impact on Software Delivery
In my recent talk at QCon San Francisco, I had the opportunity to share my thoughts on the evolution of platform engineering.
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Oct 10, 2024 ∙ 7 min
Game on: Go Multiplayer Mode to Supercharge your Internal Platform
We often celebrate the individual platform engineering or DevOps hero or heroine who (purportedly) creates something ingenious alone, but...
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Jul 16, 2024 ∙ 3 min
FINOS Open Source in Finance Forum in London: Event Summary
The Syntasso team attended last month's FINOS Open Source in Finance Forum in London and learned a lot!
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May 1, 2024 ∙ 4 min
KubeCrash Platform Engineering Recap: From Silo Busting to Thinnest Viable Platforms
The Syntasso team thoroughly enjoyed participating in three sessions at last week’s awesome KubeCrash event, which focused on “Platform...
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Apr 12, 2024 ∙ 2 min
Syntasso's Platform Engineering Day impact: Boosting community and supporting Doctors without Borders
As part of our Platform Engineering Day sponsorship commitments, we’re pleased to donate €1,000 to Doctors without Borders today
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Mar 19, 2024 ∙ 2 min
Syntasso Sees Growing Traction For Platform Maturity And Demand For Effective Internal Developer Platforms
Syntasso has further solidified its commitment to open-source and innovation by recently joining both the CNCF and FINOS as a Silver member
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Mar 8, 2024 ∙ 2 min
Syntasso Joins FINOS to Support Open Collaboration in Financial Services
We're delighted to announce that Syntasso is one of six new members announced yesterday as the latest organisations to join FINOS , the...
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Jan 6, 2023 ∙ 2 min
The 12 Platform Challenges - recap
Back in early December 2022, we set ourselves the challenge of putting together a series of blogs describing the top 12 Platform...
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Dec 8, 2022 ∙ 1 min
The 12 Platform Challenges of Christmas
Platform Engineering is generating quite the buzz these days. In particular, there seems to be a lot of chat about what it is not. Or how...
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Aug 22, 2022 ∙ 1 min
Enlightning Kratix
If you'd like to know more about Kratix, Abby Bangser will be enlightning the internet at 8:00 AM PDT on Thursday, 8th September, 2022....
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