Christian Tichy

Engineering-First Technology Leader
Platform Engineering & DevEx
Ex-Fidelity Investments

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[Christian Tichy @Christian_Tichy]

20 years in platforms, most of it Fintech and a long stretch owning a CRM platform.

I still build:

🎮 an RTS engine, an AI career-infographic tool 🤖, a personal vault 🔐.

I write about Platform Engineering, DevEx, and what happens when agents hit systems that were never designed for them - along with other platform related AI research I am always doing.

If you work on internal platforms, you’ll recognize the scars.

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@adelelecroix Truth. Even in enterprise - you get the most out of schmoozing with other customers at the vendor parties.

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@CodeWithTamara My revenue/expense graphs certainly look interesting lol

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@RobertJBye Always interested in playing around with new features!

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@Jatodaro Congratulations! To new beginnings! 🎉

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@jeffbruchado Hi!

Building https://t.co/ex09eQkAJe - a vendor neutral tool registry and news aggregator that filters out the noise to help you keep up with whats changing with the tools you build on daily!

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@RenativeStudio Congrats on 1k!🎉

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@builtwithrubel Sadly seeing the same

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22 releases in a year and zero major production incidents, on a regulated CRM platform about 28,000 Fidelity associates worked in every day.

That was my last performance year as L7 Director and Enterprise CRM Platform Owner at Fidelity, after 14 years there.

The rest of what a reference call will back up:

- 12 experience squads and 100+ engineers building on one platform across four business units
- Ran the Siebel to Salesforce migration
- Four clean vendor platform upgrades
- ~$2M in licensing savings
- Brought the platform under continuous SaaS posture management, so config and access posture got checked and enforced daily instead of waiting for the next audit
- Put AI into the delivery pipeline across a 12 team monorepo and moved dependency validation ahead of the commit. Got back roughly 2 hours per dev per release cycle

Now looking for my next Head of Platform Engineering, Head of DevEx, or Senior Director of Platform Engineering role at a company in the 300 to 1,500 person range. Within about an hour of Arlington in DFW, or fully remote.

If you're a CTO, VP of Engineering, head of platform or a search partner in DFW, I'd love to talk! DMs are open

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CloudWatch Omni now runs in the US, Canada, Brazil, Ireland, the UK, Germany, India, Singapore, Japan and Australia... 11 regions in all. Pulling Azure and GCP telemetry into AWS is the bigger decision though - check egress, residency and pricing before the AI demo sells it.

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Amazon CloudWatch Omni is now available in additional AWS Regions https://t.co/i35cqHLoqy via @PlatformChgLog

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So far -
CI/CD and GitOps: Argo CD, Flux, GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, Tekton, Helm, Kargo, Argo Rollouts
Infrastructure and portals: Backstage, Crossplane, OpenTofu, Pulumi, Cluster API, Amazon EKS
Policy and cost: Kyverno, Open Policy Agent, Karpenter
AI on the platform: K8sGPT, kagent, the Kubernetes and Terraform MCP servers
Enterprise platforms: Salesforce CLI, ServiceNow, Microsoft Power Platform, SAP BTP
Reports: DORA State of DevOps, State of Platform Engineering

Let me know if you'd like to see something else added - or just search for it! Products not found go into a list and once we see a lot of demand, will be automatically pulled into the coverage!

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Would love to have more discussions around how people are building and scaling their products!

I built https://t.co/Jlrl02fvqK to help filter out the noise, and give a clear view into how the tools you depend on are changing with each release, and what to consider berore updating!

If you are...

🛠️An SWE or Infra Engineer who works with platform engineering, devex, devops
🧑‍💻A solo founder working out how they work
🕴️A enterprise leader in the platform engineering, devex, or devops space
🖥️Or just someone with a passion for technology

Introduce yourself below and lets connect!

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@themikula Awesome, you're product looks interesting! Vibe coding with a real foundation really helps people who may not be life-long SWE get in the game! Great product!

What are some benefits someone building with it could expect? Lets get this in front of more people

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@adelelecroix Would love to! We already follow each other here it seems - but I am curious..

What are some challenges you've overcome recently with your stealth startup? Or is there anything a leader with 20 years in enterprise fintech could talk about that would pique your interests?

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@kiwicopple @supabase

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A bit late in the day, but wanted to set some goals for myself for the week!

- Finish my AI research writing Ive been working on for a couple weeks

- Find folks willing to give me feedback on https://t.co/Jlrl02fvqK

- finalize my product for creating fully animated, narrated videos for enterprise use cases like training, documentation and marketing use cases

- reach 250 quality followers growing in this journey with me!

Lets get it guys!

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@builtwithrubel well played lol

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@boardyai @hf0 30

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Claude already training on a lot of pages in https://t.co/JYlutMLUK2

Even serving results directly in chat! 16 between Claude and ChatGPT!

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@TheXSami Nice! Congratulations!

You have a lot good signal on this product - keep it up!

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A vendor-neutral registry and feed of every release, patch and update across platform engineering tools, typed line by line and linked to the source.

There was no easy way to see how the tools you are building on were being updated or what impact those updates could have on your product - so I built one place where you could see everything

Some of what it tracks so far:
CI/CD and GitOps: Argo CD, Flux, GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, Tekton, Helm, Kargo, Argo Rollouts
Infrastructure and portals: Backstage, Crossplane, OpenTofu, Pulumi, Cluster API, Amazon EKS
Policy and cost: Kyverno, Open Policy Agent, Karpenter
AI on the platform: K8sGPT, kagent, the Kubernetes and Terraform MCP servers
Enterprise platforms: Salesforce CLI, ServiceNow, Microsoft Power Platform, SAP BTP
Reports: DORA State of DevOps, State of Platform Engineering