Building a Platform Team in a 150-Year-Old Logistics Company - Logbook of a Journey

Explore a 15-minute talk detailing the formation of a platform team within Hellmann Worldwide Logistics, a 150-year-old company. Discover how Mathias Gebbe and Aljoscha Pörtner led the creation of a Developer Experience & Platform Team to enhance developer productivity, accelerate cloud-native development, and drive digital transformation in the logistics industry. Learn about their shift from traditional IT to a developer-focused approach, leveraging cloud technologies, Everything as Code, GitOps, and managed services. Gain insights into the unexpected challenges, particularly non-technical ones, encountered when building a platform engineering team from scratch in a traditional IT environment. Understand how this initiative laid the technical foundation for delivering innovative products and spearheading digital transformation in logistics over the course of a year.