Name: The Death of the YAML-Engineer: Engineering "Invisible" Platforms With Crossplane and Score - Abhinav Sharma & Mumshad Mannambeth, KodeKloud
Start: 2026-06-19T16:50:00+0530
End: 2026-06-19T17:20:00+0530

18-19 June
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The Death of the YAML-Engineer: Engineering "Invisible" Platforms With Crossplane and Score - Abhinav Sharma & Mumshad Mannambeth, KodeKloud

Friday June 19, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST

Lotus 3 (Level 3)

"I just want to ship my code". Every developer says it, but few organizations achieve it. Instead, developers spend 30% of their time wrestling with 1,000-line Helm charts and complex Terraform modules. This is the "YAML Tax", and it's killing engineering velocity.

This session shares how we abolished the YAML Tax at scale. We’ll demonstrate how to build an "Invisible Platform" where developers use Score - a workload-centric specification - to describe what their app needs, while Crossplane dynamically provisions the how across multi-cloud environments.

Attendees will learn the blueprint for:
1. Contract-Driven Development: Using Score to decouple the application's requirements from the environment’s implementation.
2. The Control Plane Shift: Replacing brittle CI/CD pipelines with Crossplane's continuous reconciliation loop for cloud resources.
3. Developer Joy at Scale: How we reduced onboarding time from weeks to minutes by hiding Kubernetes complexity behind a single score.yaml.

Speakers

Abhinav Sharma

Site Reliability Engineer, KodeKloud

I am a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at KodeKloud . I am an Open source contributor, evaluating and contributed in various open source tools and projects, such as, Microsoft's Open source libraries, OpenCV, SUSE, etc. I was also a Google Summer of Code contributor 2022 and a GitHub... Read More →

Mumshad Mannambeth

Trainer, KodeKloud

Friday June 19, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)

Application Development

Content Experience Level Any

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026

Abhinav Sharma

Mumshad Mannambeth

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