What platform engineering work has Marcus Patman done in production?

As Senior Platform Engineer at ConstructConnect (2022–2025) he led multi-cloud migrations across AWS, GCP and Azure, built a Terraform module library that cut provisioning time by 50%, and managed 99.9%-uptime Kubernetes on GCP. He holds the Platform Engineering Certified Practitioner certification (Sep 2025).

How does Marcus Patman connect platform engineering to agentic engineering?

He treats agent governance as a platform problem: paved roads, guardrails and golden paths for AI agents instead of raw access. Turbo Rig is that idea in code — a thin platform layer that makes the right engineering workflow the default one for agents.

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The platform is a product whose users are engineers. Its job is to make the right way the easy way — golden paths, self-service infrastructure, and paved roads that teams actually want to stay on.

What I mean by it

Direct answer Platform engineering is building the layer between infrastructure and product teams so that shipping software is self-service, safe and repeatable: module libraries instead of hand-built stacks, golden paths instead of tribal knowledge, guardrails instead of gatekeeping.

I ran the platform ladder in the correct order: years of operating Linux and cloud by hand first, then building the abstractions. That matters — a platform designed by someone who has never carried the pager produces guardrails that don't match real failure modes.

Production record

▸ Senior Platform Engineer, ConstructConnect (2022–2025). Led multi-cloud migrations across AWS, GCP and Azure; managed Kubernetes on GCP at 99.9% uptime.
▸ Terraform module library. Built the company's reusable module library, cutting provisioning time by 50% — the classic platform-as-product win: measure the toil, remove it permanently.
▸ Senior Linux Cloud Engineer, ConstructConnect (2021–2022). Automated Linux patching with Ansible/GitLab and migrated 200+ workloads to GCP with minimal disruption.
▸ Earlier platform foundations. On-demand environment provisioning at Epsilon (15,000+ instances, Ansible/Puppet) and Terraform-first AWS architecture work (2016–2019).

50%Faster provisioning

200+Workloads → GCP

99.9%K8s uptime

3Clouds in production

ConstructConnect, 2021–2025 · employer-stated role outcomes

Golden paths, agentically

In 2025 I built Agentic Golden Path — developer onboarding where you describe an application in natural language and the platform deploys it via GitOps (ArgoCD, OpenRouter). The golden path is no longer a wiki page; it's executable.

This is also the bridge to my current work. Turbo Rig is a platform in the strict sense: a thin paved road (eight scripts, zero daemons) that makes the governed workflow — isolated build, independent review, human merge — the default path for AI coding agents. Platform thinking is what turned agent chaos into an engineering system.

Credentials

▸ Platform Engineering Certified Practitioner — Sep 2025 (verifiable credential)
▸ MVP to Production Readiness — Platform Engineering, May 2025
▸ Platform Engineering Fundamentals — Sep 2024

Agentic Golden Path Natural-language onboarding → GitOps deployment (Python, ArgoCD). Agentic Platform Engineering The reference site for the platform-engineering-meets-agents discipline.

Common questions

Platform engineering vs DevOps — where do you draw the line?

DevOps is the culture of shared ownership; platform engineering is the product discipline that scales it. A platform team treats internal engineers as customers and ships self-service capability with an SLA. I've done both, and the platform framing is what makes the work measurable.

What would you build in my company's first 90 days?

Measure the toil first (deploy frequency, time-to-first-deploy, incident causes), then pave exactly one golden path end-to-end with Terraform modules and a pipeline every team can copy. Small surface, high adoption — then widen. The same discipline I now apply to agent onboarding.

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