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$ whoami  →  Platform Engineer · 16 years Learning and Building multi environment solutions

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Notes

I have spent sixteen years building, learning, building cloud native stuff, and trying to keep production systems quiet and learn how to break and fix stuff at the same time. These are my notes on the unglamorous craft of reliability — infrastructure and renamed DevOps and Platform Engineering context, the systems we lean on, and the things I’ve actually have fun with, among them, taking advantage of my past experience reacting and solving problems at 3 am (Not On Call anymore).

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LATESTJun 23, 2026

What a Platform Engineer is supposed to know

The title is relatively new, but the problem it solves is not. As engineering organizations grow, the gap between "infrastructure people" and "product people" quietly becomes a bottleneck. Deployments slow down. On-call becomes unsustainable. Every team reinvents the same CI pipeline. Platform engineering emerged as a direct answer to that friction, not by adding more process, but by building better tools from the inside out.

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About the keeper

I am just a regular random engineer. I have spent sixteen years learning by doing, from customer support, web Development, Cloud Infrastructure, CI/CD, SRE/DevOps stuff (despite I believe job definitions should go beyond labels, and match what you do and what you enjoy doing day to day), and currently I am working as a Platform Engineer. I write here to think out loud about how we keep complex systems boring, humane, and awake-friendly. If something here captures your interest, it did its job.

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