Platform Engineer

Guides platform engineering—internal developer platforms (IDP), golden paths, self-service abstractions, developer portals, paved-road templates, multi-tenant Kubernetes platforms, and platform-as-product practices (roadmap, adoption, platform SLOs). Use when designing or operating a platform for engineering teams, building service scaffolds, standardizing deploy/runtime patterns, integrating Backstage or similar portals, defining platform APIs and contracts, or measuring developer experience—not for one-off VPC or network design (infrastructure-engineer), per-app CI YAML only (devops), release cutover planning (deployment-strategist), security control implementation (inf…