60 platform engineering trailblazers to watch
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How do world-class software engineering teams deliver every day, at scale? Meet the unsung heroes of your engineering organization: platform teams. This discipline is still emerging, but great platform teams share a focus on powering developer productivity, building paved roads for team success, and automating solutions. Platform teams empower developers to focus on what matters, and create massive leverage for R+D team success.
At CircleCI, we work with platform team leaders everyday and we know how significant their work is to the success of scaling engineering organizations. We want to honor that work.
The list below includes engineering trailblazers making a big impact in the platform space right now. Please join us in celebrating them today.
| Name | Title | Company |
|---|---|---|
| Aaron He | Senior Engineering Manager, Platform | Tinder |
| Aaron Rosenberg | Software Engineering Manager | Iterable |
| Abeer Rahman | Director of Platform Engineering | Top Hat |
| Alex Kaos | Technical Account Manager | Dataiku |
| Andrew Svoboda | Engineering Leader | Palantir |
| Armand McQueen | Software Engineer, ML/DL Platforms | Adept.ai |
| Ben Dang | Software Engineering Manager | Okta |
| Bill Highly | Senior Manager Software Engineering | Cisco |
| Bill Morton | Head of DevOps Platform, Software Business Operations | Broadcom |
| Billy Keyes | DevOps Engineer | Palantir |
| Brett Adcock | Software Engineer | WHOOP |
| Bridget Schiefer | Senior Engineering Manager | |
| Chris Hilton | Developer Infrastructure Technical Lead | Affirm, Inc |
| Chris Irving | Development Manager, Dev Foundations | Jane |
| Chris Trower | DevOps Manager | Sonar |
| Dan Post | Senior Director of Engineering | Okta |
| Daniel Otto | Platform Manager | Public.com |
| Danny Sauer | Principal Infrastructure Engineer | Determined AI / Hewlett Packard Enterprise |
| David Dunstan | Senior Director, Platform Engineering | HashiCorp |
| Dylan Scholz | Director, Platform Engineering | Everquote |
| Ethan Kiczek | Senior DevOps Architect | Aetna Health |
| Evan Reich | Cloud Operations Technical Lead | Mycase |
| Ganesh Gembali | Principal Product Manager | McKinsey |
| Gerard McMahon | Head of ALM Tools and Platforms | Fidelity Investments |
| Indraneel Saha | Leader of DevOps Practice and Release Engineering | Symbotic |
| Isaac Perez Moncho | Head of Engineering | Fresha |
| Jacob Calder | Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience | Patreon |
| Jesse Kinkead | Engineering Director | Outreach |
| Jessica Yu | Director, Platform Engineering | Workday |
| Joe Jacobs | Leader, Cloud Ops | Cisco |
| Jose Molina-Melendez | Software Engineering Specialist | Hewlett Packard Enterprise |
| Josh Brown | Engineering Manager, Developer Productivity | Domino Data Lab |
| JP Ratliff | Application Security Engineer | Anduril |
| Kathryn Koehler | Director, Developer Productivity Engineering | Netflix |
| Kelsey Steinbeck | Senior Director of Software Engineering | Indigo |
| Keri Savoca | Engineering Manager | Compass |
| Kiran Kanagasekar | Senior Engineering Manager | TaskRabbit |
| Korhan Bircan | Director of Engineering, Developer Productivity | Square |
| Luke Briscoe | Senior Engineering Manager, Platform | Monzo Bank |
| Madeleine Clarke | Manger, Platform Operations | MediaMath |
| Mark Johnson | DevOps Engineer | Shortcut |
| Michael Blake | Head of Engineering | Kustomer |
| Michael Garski | Director of Platform Engineering | Fender Musical Instruments |
| Michael Montpetit | Build and Release Lead | Cisco |
| Michael Scheetz | Scrum Product Owner | Hewlett Packard Enterprise |
| Nik Ostrovsky | Director of Infrastructure | Patreon |
| Or Shainberg | DevOps Team Lead | Check Point Software |
| Paul Finlayson Adams | Senior Engineering Manager, Production Platforms | Deliveroo |
| Paul O’Shannessy | Software Engineering Manager | Meta |
| Pia Nilsson | Director of Engineering | Spotify |
| Raja Aluri | Head of Developer Experience | Scale AI |
| Randall Barnhart | Senior Manager of Software Development | Cue Health |
| Ravinder Arepally | Engineering Leader | Okta |
| Renaud Lepage | Staff Software Engineer, Build and Release | Okta |
| Sharadha Eswar | Principal Software Engineer, Platform and Enablement Services | Realtor |
| Shay Libo | Head of DevOps | ironSource |
| Steven Reynolds | Principal Software Engineer | Eventbrite |
| Tyson Singer | Head of Technology and Platforms | Spotify |
| Will Howell | Software Architect | Okta |
