Ajay Chankramath

Ajay Chankramath is CTO at Platform Engineering Advisory & Consulting with a career spanning more than three decades in technology leadership, including roles as Head of Platform Engineering at Thoughtworks, CTO at Brillio and CEO at Platformetrics and VP of Software Development at Broadridge. His research covers agentic artificial intelligence (AI) in platform engineering, including AI-enabled platforms and platforms purpose-built for agentic coding workflows, as well as platform security spanning zero trust architecture, policy as code, and runtime threat detection. He is the author of Effective Platform Engineering (Manning), Platform Engineer’s Handbook (Packt) and Domain Driven Platform Engineering (Springer), among other seminal works.