First Platform Engineering Meetup NL
I am excited to announce that I am speaking at the inaugural Platform Engineering Meetup NL at Xebia in Amsterdam — Wibautstraat 200 — on Wednesday, April 22, 2026.
This is the first edition of a community meetup focused on the Dutch platform engineering scene, and the lineup brings together two topics that are increasingly relevant for modern engineering organizations: controlling infrastructure cost and operating shared AI platforms at scale.
My Talk: Lessons Learned Orchestrating Multi-Tenant GPUs on OpenShift AI
How do you run shared, production-grade GPUs for AI/ML safely and efficiently?
In this experience report, I share lessons learned from implementing multi-tenant GPU orchestration on OpenShift AI using NVIDIA KAI on G/H200 hardware, fronted by Traefik and backed by Dell Technologies platforms.
What I Cover
- Tenant isolation patterns — namespaces, quotas, and priority classes for safe multi-tenancy
- Scheduling across heterogeneous nodes — mixing GPU types without manual node selection
- MIG versus full-GPU trade-offs — when to partition, when to dedicate
- Throughput versus latency tuning — optimizing for inference SLAs vs training throughput
- Driver and firmware pitfalls — the bugs you only find in production
- Upgrade and rollback strategies — zero-downtime GPU driver updates
- Day-2 operations — observability, autoscaling, and chargeback models
This talk builds directly on my KubeCon Europe 2026 presentation on multi-tenant GPUs and my Red Hat Summit 2026 lightning talk — but goes deeper into the operational lessons that only emerge after months of running GPU workloads in production.
Also Speaking: Cloud Cost Optimization at Scale
The evening kicks off with Darko Klincharski (DevOps Engineering Lead at Tarmac.io) presenting “Data Hoarder’s Guide to Surviving Cloud Bills” — a real-world case study on reducing AWS spend for a platform serving 700 million users. Practical strategies for managing petabytes of static data, high-traffic volumes, and large database cleanup.
Event Details
| Detail | Info |
|---|---|
| Event | Platform Engineering Meetup NL — Edition 1 |
| Date | Wednesday, April 22, 2026 |
| Time | 18:00 - 21:00 |
| Location | Xebia, Wibautstraat 200, Amsterdam |
| Food | Pizza and drinks provided |
Agenda
- 18:00 — Arrival with pizza and drinks
- 18:45 — Talks and discussion
- 20:30 — Last round of drinks
- 21:00 — Building closes
Who Should Attend
- Platform engineers and SREs
- DevOps engineers and cloud architects
- Engineering managers and CTOs
- Anyone working on Kubernetes, cost optimization, developer platforms, or AI infrastructure
Why This Matters
Platform engineering is no longer just about CI/CD pipelines and developer portals. The rise of AI workloads has added a new dimension: GPU orchestration is now a platform engineering problem. Teams need to share expensive hardware across multiple tenants, enforce quotas, provide self-service access, and deliver observability — all while keeping costs under control.
This meetup sits at exactly that intersection: cloud cost management meets AI platform operations.
If you are in Amsterdam, come say hello. I would love to discuss GPU multi-tenancy, platform engineering patterns, or anything cloud native.
Want to discuss GPU platform engineering for your organization? I help enterprises design multi-tenant GPU platforms on Kubernetes and OpenShift.
