Platform engineering services
Reimagine your internal developer platforms and increase the value of your software development teams
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Platform engineering is What’s Next in DevOps™
Accelerate time to market (TTM) with developer experience

IBM Consulting Platform Engineering Services increase productivity of software delivery teams by enabling self-service of infrastructure automation by developers.

Our platform engineering team works with you to modernize your internal developer platforms and offers an end-to-end multicloud approach to continuous integration, observability and functionality that includes the knowledge, ecosystem partnerships and essential managed services to successfully accelerate developer productivity and in turn time to market for high impact software applications. 

At a time when disparate developer experiences are holding many organizations back, IBM Consulting helps you successfully provide delightful developer experiences that enable high impact applications to migrate securely and confidently to cloud platforms, realize faster leveraging of crucial metrics and data. While also embracing AI, streamlining automation and transforming your software development teams into a competitive advantage within your business.

Learn how platform engineering accelerates TTM

Benefits Accelerate

Bring greater efficiency, resiliency and agility into your application platform environment by taking advantage of automation, DevOps, AIOps and enhanced security to boost application performance, drive efficiencies and reduce costs.

Innovate

Foster innovation by gaining observability into your applications, processes, data and application platform estate using AI and machine-learning-led insights to transform siloed, inefficient workflows for increased throughput and business performance.

Elevate

Enable growth and elevate experience through talent transformation and continued infusion of new technologies and ways of working, laying the foundation for modernized IT.

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Meet our experts Tim Clark

Tim is a senior executive consultant and architect with over 26 years of experience leading technical transformational changes across various verticals including gaming, finance, ecommerce, SaaS and PaaS strategies, and has extensive experience in cloud computing, cloud security and virtualization as well as DevOps.

Ian Evans

Ian has 20 years of experience providing cost-effective, efficient, and performant IT solutions and cloud architecture for companies of all sizes, using both on-premises and cloud-based applications and infrastructure. He is highly analytical and adept at creating short and long-term strategic solutions that help IT align with the business.

James Leone

Principal Azure Cybersecurity Architect for Platform Engineering Services in the Americas, James is a digital technology leader who has worked with medium to enterprise organizations across regulated and non-regulated industries with experience across a spectrum of management, thought leadership and individual contributor roles.

Larry LaBas

Security and Google Lead Architect for Platform Engineering Services in the Americas, Larry is a technology and security strategist who devises and executes end-to-end plans to align global operations, security and team capabilities with customer needs and corporate objectives and who excels at building world class organizations and processes.

Donald Lutz

Donald is a Senior Azure Cloud Architect and Software Architect with a vast depth and breadth in cloud native, Azure and AWS software architecture. Donald has good experience in ASP.NET Core and messaging systems to build integrated, orchestrated microservices using Azure, AWS, Docker, Kafka, and Kubernetes.

Stephen Wheet

Stephen brings more than 20 years of experience across multiple industries in systems engineering, DevOps, architecture and design and networking. He has a proven ability to modernize and transform enterprise engagements by skillfully leveraging cloud technologies, automation and best practices.

Shadoe DiStefano

Shadoe is a Senior Cloud Architect with an emphasis on automation, elasticity, security, and fiduciary responsibility and an extensive background in cloud (GCP and AWS) architecture, new cloud deployments, cloud migrations, IAM, physical data centers and hybrid Linux and Windows servers, IPv4 and IPv6 networks.

Eli Elliott

Eli is a senior-level Infrastructure Director/Architect with over 20 years of experience. He is particularly adept at designing solutions holistically, considering the data center environment and hardware and how they interact and effect the software layer, and is well versed in current orchestration toolsets.

Lionel Tchami Nfada

Lionel is a Terraform certified and Kubernetes DevOps engineer with more than 7 years of experience in CI/CD pipeline configuration, automation, management and providing expert support for critical systems. In addition, he is a passionate technologist with a results-oriented, consultative mindset.

Trish Palumbo

Trish’s career stretches from the dot-com days to the hybrid cloud journey and everything in between, partnering with leading tech companies to ensure their infrastructure and software is developed and implemented by the best engineers in the industry.

Peter Newton

Peter’s career spans 25+ years delivering solutions to shape organizational performance and responsiveness to business needs for enabling transformational change that embraces innovation and trust.

Wister Falcon

Wister’s career spans 25+ years delivering comprehensive and balanced technology solutions for managing application development, database administration and network operations/infrastructure teams.

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