Overview
This project is about facilitating the adoption of the Backstage developer platform and Developer Experience best practices in one of the UK's largest insurance companies. Backstage is an open source framework for building developer portals created by Spotify, which empowers the enhancement of developer experience and efficiency.
This initiative involved setting up the infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and tailoring the developer portal as per their organizational requirements
Key Contributions
- Infrastructure Setup
Leveraging AWS services, a robust infrastructure was established, ensuring efficiency, scalability and reliability of the platform.
- CI/CD Pipeline Configuration
We configured CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and Jenkins, enabling automated deployment of applications to the EKS cluster, as well as infrastructure needed on AWS. The pipelines also invovled configuring Helm, JFrog (internal container registry) and FluxCD to deploy to the Kubernetes cluster.
- Customization of full stack application
We tailored the full stack application to meet the specific business needs of the organization. This involved developing custom plugins, templates, and components within the Backstage platform.
- Thought Leadership on Developer Experience
Provided thought leadership on enhancing developer experience, including structuring the organization into product-based teams, streamlining and standardizing developer processes, and measuring developer productivity using the SPACE framework and more.
Achievements
- Successfully facilitated the adoption of Spotify's Backstage developer platform within the insurance company.
- Established a scalable and automated deployment process.
- Customized the full stack application to align with the insurance company's unique business requirements.
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Mohammed Chakmakchi
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