Panel: Shaping Platform Engineering's Future: From Community To Industry Standard Certification-Atulpriya Sharma, InfraCloud Technologies; Turja Narayan Chaudhuri, EY GDS; Faseela K, Ericsson; Chris Plank, NatWest Banking Group; Christophe Sauthier, CNCF
Panelat Platform Engineering Day North America 2025 · on Monday, 2025-11-10· at 12:45· Building B | Level 5 | Thomas Murphy Ballroom 2-3·
summary
Community-built vendor-neutral certification validates the “glue” skills that single-project certs miss, mapping platform design, security, observability and developer experience into a curriculum. CNCF and Linux Foundation coordinate question writing and review with 50 companies contributed, producing hundreds of questions and multi-stage review for the Cloud Native Platform Engineer Associate (CNPA). A multiple-choice CNPA exists and the practical CNP exam launches as a hands-on test; bank beta users report the exam reliably highlights real proficiency versus resume buzzwords.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Welcome
- 1:05Panelists' roles
- 6:03Defining platform engineering
- 9:57Solving platform problems
- 13:28Hiring skill gaps
- 21:26CNPA certification purpose
- 27:53CNPA certification challenges
- 29:16Future career paths
- 32:51Closing remarks
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