Hi, I’m Rob. I’m a Senior Platform Operations Engineer at Storyteq, working on platform engineering and infrastructure-as-code.
I work underneath the work — building the paved roads, golden paths, and shared infrastructure that let the rest of the engineering organisation move faster, build safer, and reach further than they could alone.
How I got here
I came up through the deep operations end of the stack — Terraform, Kubernetes, Istio, the boring infrastructure that everything else stands on top of. Over time the work pulled upward: from running a single platform to defining how a whole engineering organisation builds, ships, and recovers. ADR frameworks. Disaster-recovery designs. Hiring templates. Org-wide standards rather than one team’s tooling.
These days I’m spending most of my time on AI-platform engineering — the operations layer underneath AI-assisted software development. Agent orchestration, evaluation pipelines, model gateways, and the runtime governance that turns non-deterministic systems into something a production engineer can trust. The platforms underneath the platforms.
What platform engineering is
Platform engineering is the practice of building shared infrastructure as a product for the engineers inside an organisation. Instead of every team solving the same deployment, observability, security, and reliability problems from scratch, a platform team builds the well-paved path — a golden default that lets product teams focus on the work only they can do.
DevOps is the cultural practice that came first: developers and operations sharing accountability for what ships. Platform engineering is what that practice grew into once organisations got large enough that ad-hoc sharing wasn’t enough.
The quiet discipline
Platform engineering is a quiet discipline; the best of it is invisible until you notice it isn’t there. The promise of it is that the right primitives in the right places can lift a whole organisation higher than any individual engineer’s heroics ever could.
Most of what I do in a week is putting that promise to the test in production. This site is the record of what I learn.
What you’ll find here
- Posts — field notes on platform engineering, AI-platform engineering, infrastructure-as-code, and the patterns that hold (or don’t) at scale.
- Artifacts — quarterly deeper work: runnable repos, open-source tools, and longer-form pieces that don’t fit on a blog page.