01 · Leadership team
Ajay Chankramath
CTO · PEC
- Co-author Effective Platform Engineering (Manning), Domain-Driven Platform Engineering (Springer), author of Platform Engineer's Handbook (Packt)
- ~4 decades as engineer, architect, and engineering leader across PE, DevEx, cloud, FinOps, SRE
- 8+ years advising enterprise engineering leadership across global banks and Fortune 500s
- Regular keynote speaker at Platform conferences, and educator at PE.org, O'Reilly, Pearson, Packt
Mallory Haigh
Head of Platform Education and Advocacy · PEC
- Creator/teacher of PE University certifications, Practitioner, Leader, Professional, AI in PE
- 17+ years full-stack engineer, consultant, developer advocate. Background in anthropology.
- 5+ years partnering with engineering leadership at enterprise orgs to drive adoption
- Regular speaker at PlatformCon and industry events
Kaspar von Grünberg
Founder & Principal Advisor · PEC
- Early pioneer in platform engineering; coined the term Internal Developer Platform (IDP)
- Co-founder of PEC, initiator of PlatformEngineering.org, and PlatformCon
- Worked with hundreds of enterprise leaders on platform strategy and hands-on platform rollouts at scale
- Author and regular speaker on platform engineering, IDPs, and the intersection of platforms and AI
Luca Galante
Managing Director · PEC
- Core Contributor at PlatformEngineering.org, the world's largest platform engineering community with 300,000+ members
- Host of PlatformCon, the world's largest platform engineering conference
- Author of Platform Weekly, read by 100,000+ engineers every Friday
- Speaks with dozens of engineering teams monthly, distilling insights from hundreds of real-world platform setups
Sam Barlien
Head of Ecosystem · PEC
- Co-host of PlatformCon and contributor to Platform Weekly
- Leads the Platform Engineering community Ambassador program, blog, and YouTube channel
- 10+ years involved in tech community building and organising
- Focused on growing and connecting the global platform engineering practitioner community
Rachael Wilhite
Head of Partnerships · PEC
- Your point of contact from first call through partnership
- Handles commercials so practitioner time stays on delivery
- Has worked with 100+ engineering teams across financial services, fintech, insurance, and infrastructure