When Software Becomes Everyone's Job [Testμ 2026]

Piramal Finance’s Testμ Conf 2026 session described how its Build Your Own Tech (BYOT) platform expanded software delivery from nearly no non-engineering contributors two years ago to 947 builders, 1,306 projects, and 369 production applications. BYOT lets business teams create internal tools through a browser-based environment while engineering embeds deployment, authentication, databases, secrets, approved integrations, and access controls as governed guardrails. KriyaOS extends this approach across requirements, mockups, user acceptance testing, monitoring, and automated remediation, with shape notes requiring agreement before code generation to reduce iteration costs. Quality is mandatory rather than optional: integration, regression, and smoke tests are generated automatically, run as CI gates, and can trigger tickets and repair attempts after failures. Although many projects were abandoned or remain unfinished, the speakers argued that successful applications, including some that substantially reduce manual work, justify experimentation and enable smaller business improvements that conventional prioritization would overlook. They emphasized that engineering has shifted toward maintaining reusable standards, secure defaults, API catalogs, and platform infrastructure, while people retain responsibility for product decisions, compliance policies, architecture of core systems, and judgment about what should be built or released.

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