Guest: Rob Schmit (LinkedIn)
Company: Qarik Group (Twitter)

Qarik Group helps organizations build better products for their customers by transforming their developer experience and platform engineering. In this episode of 2023 Predictions, Partner Rob Schmit shares his forecast for the industry this new year.

In 2023, Schmit sees:

• Companies focusing on developer success. With budget constraints and layoffs, they want to get the best performance and highest productivity to meet their goals.
• Platform engineering becoming an end-to-end experience, with engineers adopting the product mindset.
• AI augmenting the developer experience, expanding its footprint into different areas of the tool chain, even doing tech data analysis.

Qarik will focus on:

• Helping companies manage their transitions, whether it’s standing up a platform engineering team, integrating various tool sets and containers into a unified platform, or figuring out what to use to build their own developer platform.
• Examining programs and practices that developers use in their day-to-day work lives and helping them make value-based decisions.