Maarten Vandeperre
Maarten Vandeperre is a Specialized Solutions Architect at Red Hat focused on platform engineering, AI enablement, and sovereign platform design. He helps organizations build modern application platforms on OpenShift that reduce cognitive load, enable developer autonomy, and keep enterprises in control of their data, technology, and AI strategy.
With a strong background in software development and clean architecture, Maarten bridges application design and infrastructure, mapping architectural principles to scalable, secure, and compliant platforms. His work spans sovereign AI, internal developer platforms, model serving, and cloud-native integration patterns. He regularly speaks at developer and AI conferences across Europe, sharing practical insights on platform engineering, AI, and digital sovereignty.
Talks
Platform Engineering 101: Building Internal Developer Platforms
Tell us what you want, what you really, really want… Developer productivity and reduced cognitive load, of course! In our world of cloud-native Java development and shift-left mentality, developers are now drowning! They have an endless flood of tasks and responsibilities on their shoulders, whilst battling an ever-increasing sea of potential technologies and tools to use. Change is needed! So, build a dam with us through platform engineering and IDPs. In this session, we’ll explore the concepts of platform engineering and Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) and how they can help to relieve the cognitive load on developers, help to standardize technologies and tools used throughout an organization, streamline CI/CD pipelines and in essence enable greater developer productivity. We’ll investigate how this can all be achieved in the cloud, with example applications running in OpenShift, with Red Hat Developer Hub as the basis of our IDP.