From friction to flow: How platform engineering accelerates developer velocity

Platform teams face a critical bottleneck: developers demand rapid project bootstrapping, while maintaining security and consistency standards.

Join Derry Bradley, Field Engineer at CircleCI, to learn how to leverage self-service developer platforms that eliminate provisioning bottlenecks.In this session, Derry Bradley will demonstrate how Terraform and templated CI/CD create secure "paved roads" for rapid project bootstrapping, while maintaining organizational control. You will:

Understand architecture patterns for IDP-driven infrastructure provisioning

Learn how to implement security layers with OIDC and restricted contexts

Discover the benefits of creating reusable pipeline templates with flexible override capabilities

Leverage CircleCI's MCP integration to reduce developer context switching

After a 30-minute talk there’ll be a 15-minute Q&A, for which we encourage you to submit questions in advance.
A webinar recording and related materials will be shared with all attendees after the event.

Derry Bradley - Senior Solutions Engineer @ CircleCI

Derry Bradley is a Senior Field Engineer at CircleCI, where he helps organizations streamline their software delivery through tailored automation solutions. He demonstrates the technical feasibility of the CircleCI platform to technical audiences and provides guidance from pre-sales through implementation.

Prior to CircleCI, Derry was a Software Engineer at Fidelity Investments, where he built automated CI/CD pipelines, developed cloud infrastructure, and trained teams on DevOps best practices