Clarity, Cut, Ownership: India’s Blueprint for Building Platforms That Scale - Neel Radia

This talk explores how engineering teams in India executed a comprehensive platform transformation at StoneX Group Inc., emphasizing the importance of ownership in scaling modern platforms. The speaker discusses how engineers were granted full lifecycle accountability, impacting system design, production reliability, and long-term scalability. Key architectural choices like domain decomposition, service boundaries, and observability standards were prioritized to enhance extensibility and operational clarity. The session provides real examples including architectural diagrams, decision frameworks, and refactoring patterns, illustrating the significant influence of ownership on system design and engineering outcomes.