Who we are

In 2020 we set out to democratize access to Internal Developer Platforms, something that at the time only large and advanced engineering organizations could afford to build and maintain.

We launched Humanitec, a leading platform engineering solution for teams of all sizes to ship and scale IDPs successfully. The immediate challenge was that nobody had really heard of platform engineering until then, there was no conceptual framework for people to even understand the problems our products were solving for them. So we decided to take a step back and create that framework: platform engineering.

We did it community-first, starting up a handful of Platform Engineers Meetup groups all over Europe and publishing a simple website for everyone to contribute their tools, best practices and frameworks, internaldeveloperplatform.org. Many showed interest and soon after we set up the Platform Engineering Slack for both experts and newcomers to share their stories, good and bad, with one another.

The response to that was even better and we quickly rolled out the site you are on right now, which became the global home for all Platform Engineers out there.

But what's a community without a yearly feast, a gathering of the top minds in the space to crystal ball where we are going next? PlatformCon and the Platform Engineering Youtube were born to shower us all in insightful, inspiring talks and tutorials to advance on our platform journey together.

And what better companion for all those playlists than a gem packed, irreverent, crunchy community newsletter?! 👉 Platform Weekly. You get the gist. What started as a necessity to explain a new product category and define best practices around this emerging field, became a global community and a labor of love for our team. So much so that in 2024 we decided to split up and have some of us focus entirely on growing the community.

We spun off as Platform Engineering Masters to make platform engineering as big a deal as possible while making sure definitions, blueprints, frameworks and best practices stay consistent and reliable for everyone. Since then, we rolled out our Platform Engineering University and have already certified 1000+ Platform Engineers. And we are just getting started. Stay tuned, much more to come in the brave new world of platform engineering. Thanks for being a part of this journey with us ❤️