Speaker: Kevin Holditch
Engineering Leader and Distributed Systems Practitioner @Form3
Kevin Holditch is an engineering leader and distributed systems practitioner at Form3, building resilient, cloud-native platforms for critical financial infrastructure. His work focuses on high-availability architectures, multi-cloud environments, and infrastructure automation at scale.
Having operated across hands-on engineering and architectural leadership roles, Kevin combines deep technical expertise with experience scaling teams through periods of rapid growth. He is particularly interested in the practical realities of operating large distributed systems: failure modes, resilience engineering, developer productivity, and the trade-offs inherent in complex platforms.
Kevin is the author of Terraform: From Beginner to Master, reflecting his long-standing interest in infrastructure as code and operational simplicity.
He enjoys tackling both technical and organisational complexity, and believes robust systems are built by empowered teams with clear ownership.
Session
How To Run on Three Clouds at Once, and When Not To
If you've made a bank transfer recently, there's a good chance that Form3 handled it. When we have a wobble, people notice.