Hannah Foxwell | Platform as a Product: What Happens When We Treat Security as a User?

Hannah Foxwell, Co-Founder of Bimp, joined us at the Cloud Native & Open Source AI Conference in London to share a practical session on platform engineering, product thinking, and security. In this session, “Platform as a Product: What Happens When We Treat Security as a User?”, Hannah explores how platform teams can improve security outcomes by treating security as a user of the platform, not just as a control function or approval gate. As organisations build internal developer platforms and cloud native systems, security needs to be designed into the developer experience from the start. That means understanding security teams as stakeholders, designing workflows they can trust, and creating platform capabilities that make secure delivery easier for everyone. This talk looks at what happens when platform teams apply product thinking to security, and how that shift can help reduce friction, improve adoption, and build more reliable engineering systems. Whether you are a platform engineer, security engineer, DevOps practitioner, cloud native architect, engineering leader, or product-minded technologist, this session offers a useful perspective on building platforms that work for both developers and security teams. About the speaker Hannah Foxwell is Co-Founder of Bimp, working across platform engineering, DevOps, cloud native technology, and modern engineering practices. About the conference The Cloud Native & Open Source AI Conference is Community Stack’s London conference for engineers, architects, platform leaders, AI practitioners, and technology leaders working at the intersection of cloud native infrastructure, open source AI, and production-scale systems. Hosted with BrainStation in London as part of London Tech Week, the conference brought together practitioners building real systems across Kubernetes, open source LLMs, AI platforms, agentic workflows, developer experience, governance, security, and production operations. No vendor roadmaps. No theoretical future-gazing. Just practitioners sharing what actually works. Learn more about Community Stack: https://www.communitystack.io/ Supported by Thank you to our sponsors, partners, speakers, and community members who helped make the Cloud Native & Open Source AI Conference possible, including BrainStation, Overmind, Appvia, Harvey Nash, Axiologik, Colibri Digital, T5 Digital, Nearform, Dash0, RLS Search, Doubleword, Postman, X4 Group, Engaging Data, BIMP, Aiven, and our wider community partners. About Community Stack Community Stack is a stewardship-led community infrastructure group, building and operating practitioner communities, conferences, platforms, services, insight, and research across AI, Cloud, Data, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Open Source, and the third sector. Website: https://www.communitystack.io/ LinkedIn:   / community-stack-hq   Community Engine: https://www.communitystack.io/engine Stay connected Subscribe for more talks from Community Stack conferences, meetups, and community events. Like this video if you found it useful, and share it with your network.