What a Platform Engineer Is (and why it’s basically DevOps with a sharper purpose)

A practical, end-to-end definition of Platform Engineering as I do it: CI/CD, IaC, security, Kubernetes, data platforms, MLOps, AI infrastructure, developer experience, and operational excellence.

Published 10th of January, 2026 · 10 min · 1929 words · Chris Funderburg

13/Dec/2025 - Building Long Lived Dev Environments With Git Branches

Push a branch, get an environment. We built convention-driven developer environments using GitHub Actions and Terraform - isolated AWS stacks from branch names alone.

Published 13th of December, 2025 · 6 min · 1274 words · Chris Funderburg