The Roadmap
Goals
- Improve my Platform Engineering knowledge and experience
- Learn how to design and implement an Internal Developer Platform
Themes
- Platform Engineering
- CI/CD pipeline
- Kubernetes
Read
- Read 20 books
- Read 3 articles per month
Write
- Write 6 blog posts
- Write the notes of at least 2 books
Projects
- Start my open-source project Betcycle – A DevOps Quest from Exploration to Production
- Improve my programming skills
- Capture and share CI/CD best practices
- Explore and assess CI/CD tools
- Implement and explore platform capabilities
Tools
Explore the following tools:
- Crossplane
- Dagger
- Tekton
Research & Development
- Internal Developer Platform
- CI/CD Interoperability
- Kubernetes
- Database development
- IaC
- Security
- Monitoring
Learning & Training
- Programming: Python
- Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate)
- Kubernetes
- GitOps
- Crossplane
- Management & Leadership
Community
- CD Foundation Ambassador
- Improve my contribution by writing articles and/or training content
- DevOps Porto Co-Founder and Organizer
- Organize 11 (monthly) meetups
- Improve operational aspects
- New team members onboarding
- Speakers recruitment
- Social media presence and communication
The Review
At the beginning of 2025, I joined Körber with the mission to build a Platform to support and enable software development across the organization. 2025 represents the first chapter of this journey – build the platform foundations.
Goals
Both goals were about improving my platform engineering knowledge and experience. Both happened when I joined Körber with the mission of building a platform to support software development, drive standardization, and introduce the concept of developer experience. The learning came from the work itself.
The most useful lesson was this: building a platform is far less about technology than I assumed going in. The hard parts are standardization, adoption, and understanding what developers actually need – not choosing between tools.
Read
I read 16 books of the 20 initially planned. Regarding the articles, I have no idea how many articles I read. Improvement for next year: register the articles I read.
Write
I achieved half the goal – I wrote 3 of the 6 planned blog posts.
Book notes: I started and did not finish the notes for “Frictionless: 7 Steps to Remove Barriers, Unlock Value, and Outpace Your”
Projects
The project BetCycle still sits in the drawer
Tools
I explored a bit of Crossplane. Dagger and Tekton did not get any real time.
Research & Development
IDP and Kubernetes were the topics I worked on.
Learning & Training
The main topic was Platform Engineering. I completed the Platform Engineering Certified Practitioner training successfully.
Community
My only contribution to CD Foundation was participating in a discussion panel about AI: Reducing CI/CD Complexity with Emerging Technologies | LLMs, AI Agents and A2A.
As DevOps Porto organizer, I contributed to the realization of 11 meetups.
The Foundations
Looking back, the roadmap looks half-finished. Books unread, tools unexplored, posts unwritten, a project still in the drawer.
But foundations do not show up well in a checklist. What 2025 actually delivered was a role where I own the platform mission end-to-end, a real organization with real constraints to build for, the certification and the field experience to do it properly, and a clear idea of what I want to build next and why.