Summary

Juan from Banking Circle discusses the development of their internal platform engineering team called Atlas, which serves over 250 technical staff processing over 1 trillion euros annually in cross-border payments. The platform includes multiple sub-platforms for compute, infrastructure, messaging, and observability, designed to abstract infrastructure complexities and enable engineering teams to focus on building core systems. By creating specialized platforms like Kubernetes-based compute services and database provisioning tools, Banking Circle has developed a comprehensive technology ecosystem that supports their fintech operations and allows developers to more efficiently build and deploy applications.