Ajay Chankramath

Ajay Chankramalath is CTO at Platform Engineering Consulting (PEC), where he leads client engagements as one of the practitioners who defined the discipline. His career spans nearly four decades as an engineer, architect, and engineering leader across platform engineering, developer experience, cloud, FinOps, and SRE, including roles as Head of Platform Engineering at Thoughtworks, CTO at Brillio and CEO at Platformetrics. He has senior leadership experience in FinTech, Cloud SaaS, and Semiconductor industries.

At PEC, his current focus includes agentic AI for platform engineering and domain-driven platform engineering. He is co-author of *Effective Platform Engineering* (Manning) and *Domain-Driven Platform Engineering* (Springer), and author of the *Platform Engineer's Handbook* (Packt). He's a regular keynote speaker at platform engineering conferences like PlatformCon and an educator at Platform Engineering University, O'Reilly, Pearson, and Packt.