# Uğur Başak

**Director of Platform Engineering  at TomTom**

## About

Ugur Basak is Director of Platform Engineering at TomTom, where he leads the Platform Engineering organisation. He has spent 20+ years leading technical transformations at VeriPark, Booking.com, and  TomTom, embedding developer experience, platform thinking, and change management into organisations at scale. He speaks on Platform Engineering, developer experience, resilience, and AI's real impact on engineering organisations.

## Sessions

### Resilience by Default

**What you will learn:** Same parallel, from the resilience side. Blast-radius containment, golden paths, and idempotent recovery were how Platform Engineering kept the SDLC standing under load. Agentic systems do not change those principles, they raise the stakes. I will show how the resilience patterns we built for pipelines and services apply to AI and agentic workloads, and where the failure modes are genuinely new.

## Speaking At

- [RBLN Europe 2026 - Amsterdam](https://www.rbln.com/events/2026/europe)

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