About
Roberto Cornano
Founder & Platform Engineer
I've spent most of my career working behind the scenes of software products.
16 years across backend engineering, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, DevOps and software architecture.
Why I started PlatformBox
For the last 16 years, I've worked across backend engineering, infrastructure, DevOps and architecture.
Over time, I noticed something that kept happening.
As engineering teams grow, developers don't just build the product anymore. They also end up dealing with containers, pipelines, environments, infrastructure, security, monitoring and everything else needed to get that product safely into production.
I've been on both sides of that problem. I've built software, and I've built the infrastructure around it.
And I kept asking myself: why should every engineering team have to solve the same problems again and again?
That's really where PlatformBox started.
I'm building PlatformBox around a simple idea: give engineering teams a reliable path from code to production, without making every developer become a platform engineer.
The problem I kept seeing
- Code
- Container
- Configuration
- CI/CD
- Environments
- Secrets
- Networking
- Security
- Observability
- Production
What I'm building now
I'm still building it.
The reference platform, the Golden Paths, the infrastructure, the processes and the evidence are all part of that work.
The goal isn't to build the most complicated platform. It's to build one that genuinely makes engineering teams better.
I'm not building PlatformBox from a slide deck.
The reference platform is where I'm validating the architecture, the workflows and the engineering approach — in public, not in a pitch deck.
Explore the Reference PlatformWhat I believe good platform engineering should do
- Make the common path easy.
- Standardize what should be standardized.
- Automate what should be automated.
- Build security into the path.
- Make operational decisions visible.
- Keep infrastructure understandable.
- Treat cost as an engineering concern.
16 years
Engineering experience
Backend
Distributed systems / microservices / APIs
Cloud
AWS / infrastructure / automation
DevOps
CI/CD / deployment / operations
Platform
Kubernetes / Terraform / IDP
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If you're seeing the same problems in your engineering organization, the first step isn't necessarily building a platform.
First, understand what you actually have.