Chris Jia
She/HerSenior Full-Stack Engineer & Automation ExpertChris Jia is a Senior Full-Stack Developer and Automation Expert with over 10 years of experience across fintech, education, and e-commerce. She builds practical, reliable, enterprise-grade systems, often adding AI-powered capabilities and strong quality practices.
She also designed an internal engineering platform that standardised CI/CD and delivery workflows for more than 500 projects.
Chris is active in New Zealand’s tech community, volunteering with local tech groups and supporting a more inclusive tech culture in Aotearoa.
LinkedInTaming chaos: Building a DevOps platform for a multi‑stack enterprise
How do you bring order to fragmented tech stacks, inconsistent environments, and siloed delivery workflows across a fast-growing enterprise?
In this talk, I’ll share how I designed and rolled out an internal engineering platform that standardised CI/CD, automated environment governance, and streamlined delivery for more than 500 systems, including front-end, back-end, and middleware services, ensuring consistency and data isolation across environments.
You’ll hear practical lessons and insights from scaling an internal engineering platform, for platform, DevOps, full-stack, and automation QA engineers dealing with multiple stacks, environments, and delivery pipelines.
Who is this talk for?
This talk is for engineers, DevOps practitioners, platform teams, and tech leads facing complexity across multiple products, teams, or environments. If you’re struggling with fragmented tech stacks, unreliable pipelines, or unclear ownership, this talk offers practical guidance on how to design, build, and roll out an internal DevOps platform that scales.
What will attendees take away?
Attendees will gain actionable insights into CI/CD standardization, automation design, and environment governance, plus lessons learned from rolling out an internal engineering platform across 500+ projects.