# Platform Pioneer

> Darshit Pandya — Senior Principal Engineer (Platform) at Serko. AWS Community Builder. International speaker on Platform Engineering, Serverless, and AI-First Developer Experience.

## About

Platform Pioneer is the personal site and knowledge hub of Darshit Pandya. Darshit specialises in Platform Engineering, Internal Developer Platforms (IDP), Serverless architectures, and AI-First Developer Experience. He has 16+ years of industry experience and has been an AWS Community Builder (Serverless cohort) since 2021.

## Expertise

- Platform Engineering & Internal Developer Platforms (IDP)
- AI-First Developer Experience
- Serverless & Event-Driven Architecture on AWS
- Platform Orchestration & Abstraction Layers
- API Design & Team Topologies

## Speaking

Darshit is an international speaker who has presented at AWS re:Invent, AWS Summit Sydney, PlatformCon, AWS Community Days, and other major tech conferences since 2024.

### Conference Repos

- **Strands Powertools Observability** — AWS Summit Sydney 2026 (DEV312)
  Production-ready observability for Strands Agents on AWS Lambda — X-Ray subsegments per tool call, structured reasoning logs with correlation IDs, and per-tool CloudWatch metrics using Lambda Powertools.
  https://github.com/Darshitpandya/strands-powertools-observability

## Blog

Technical writing on Platform Engineering, Serverless, AI, and API design.
https://blog.platformpioneer.io

## Links

- Website: https://platformpioneer.io
- Blog: https://blog.platformpioneer.io
- GitHub: https://github.com/Darshitpandya
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/darshitpandya
- X / Twitter: https://x.com/serverless99