Explore strategies for transforming public sector teams and achieving operational excellence in platform engineering through this 15-minute conference talk. Discover how to tackle the challenges of legacy applications in government organizations by decomposing monolithic systems and adopting cloud-native approaches. Learn to build small, efficient teams of platform engineers, transition from on-premises data centers to cloud-native application platforms, and implement architecture and tools for effective platform management. Gain valuable insights and lessons learned to avoid common pitfalls in public sector digital transformation efforts.