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-Talk_date = ""
-Talk_start_time = ""
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-Title = "Your Internal Platform Is a Safety System (Whether You Designed It or Not)"
-Type = "talk"
-Speakers = ["pratik-parikh"]
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-
-Internal developer platforms increasingly sit on the critical path of delivery,
-reliability, and incident response. They decide who can deploy when, how
-rollbacks happen, what can be observed, and what actions are possible under
-pressure. In other words: every platform is already a safety system, even if it
-was never designed with safety in mind.
-
-In this talk we'll explore platforms through the lenses of SREs, human factors
-and safety science. We'll examine how common platform design choices quietly
-shape system behaviour during failures, influence human decision making in
-incidents and reduce a team's ability to adapt when reality diverges from
-assumptions.
-
-"Golden Paths" - No, this session will not focus on that, instead it will look
-at platforms as socio-technical systems where automation, observability,
-policies and guardrails interact with human judgement, time pressure and
-uncertainty. We will talk about why safety is not abou t preventing failures
-but rather about enabling effective response and how platforms can either
-support or undermine this goal.
-
-Attendees will leave with a new mental model for evaluating platform designs,
-recognizing safety anti-patterns, and intentionally building platforms that
-increase adaptive capacity, resilience, and trust — not just developer
-productivity.
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-Title = "Pratik Parikh"
-Twitter = "Pizzenpast"
-linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/parikh-pratik/"
-image = "pratik-parikh.png"
-type = "speaker"
-linktitle = "pratik-parikh"
-Website = "https://simbian.ai/"
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-
-I am Pratik Parikh, and I work as a Senior Software Engineer in DevOps and
-Cloud space. I have a passion in experimenting with new tools and technologies.
-I am exploring different ways to contribute to the Open Source communities.
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 ignites:
-  - title: "pratik-parikh"
-    date: 2026-04-21
   - title: "elizabeth-jamison"
     date: 2026-04-21
   - title: "jared-rhodes"