Platform Teams and Developer Productivity with Adam Rogal, Dir. Developer Platform at DoorDash
Creating a platform team, platforms at smaller companies, and developer productivity at DoorDash
I sat down with Adam Rogal who heads up Developer Platform at DoorDash, to get his take on platform teams, developer productivity, and how the two are connected. We covered these topics:
The definition of a platform team, and how Adam thinks about them
Creating a platform team, and how DoorDash went about it
Characteristics of well-run platform teams. Pillars, OKRs, KPIs.
Small companies and how they can use platform team approaches
Developer productivity at DoorDash
My take on what Adam shared, and the differences and similarities in thinking on platform teams with Ganesh Srinivasan, who created the mobile platform teams at Uber which Adam eventually took over