What is Client Platform Engineering? One of the growing ideas in tech is the idea of a “Client Platform Engineering” (CPE) team. I looked around and to my surprise I couldn’t find much in the way of content for what these teams do. I managed the Client Platform Engineering team at Shopify and worked closely with our team in Atlassian when I was leading the enterprise security team there so I figured I would attempt to demystify the team and what they do....
Background Update: This blog was posted back in 2021 on my previous blog and was based on a 2020 talk I did. In migrating to a new platform I’ve gone through and applied a few updates for 2022 mostly focusing on new features available on the market and upcoming changes such as WebAuthN improvements with passwordless. I spent the last few years building out a Zero Trust architecture as the Head of Corporate Security in Atlassian and I figured it’s time to write a blog going into some of the design decisions we made and how we implemented the changes at enterprise scale....