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

27/Nov/2025 - Platform Engineering is ON

Some interesting things I’m working on in the new consulting gig

Published 27th of November, 2025 · Updated 30th of December, 2025 · 3 min · 500 words · Chris Funderburg

04/Sep/2025 - The DevOps Creed

This is the way

Published 4th of September, 2025 · 2 min · 284 words · Chris Funderburg

02/Sep/2025 - A Week of AI Prompts

A week of the prompts / questions I’ve asked ChatGPT about

Published 2nd of September, 2025 · 6 min · 1079 words · Chris Funderburg

01/Aug/2024 - A Git Commit Template

This is a commit template for Git explaining how to ensure yourself and your team are following best practice with Git.

Published 1st of August, 2024 · 4 min · 686 words · Chris Funderburg

18/Jun/2024 - Techworld

I’ve finally given in and bought Techword With Nana’s DevSecOps bootcamp

Published 18th of June, 2024 · 3 min · 476 words · Chris Funderburg