Chris Stephenson

CTO, Humanitec

Chris has been building platforms to help developers be more effective and less dependent on others for over ten years. He has experience working in the City of London, Google, and at several start-ups. In his current role as CTO at Humanitec, he is trying to package what he has learned so that any company can quickly and easily build its own IDP.

Chris

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Culture

June 10

Platform engineering is not about platforms

Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) are a solution to the problems tackled by platform engineering. But why are platforms the answer? What problems are we actually tackling?

Chris Stephenson

CTO, Humanitec

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