Colin Griffin
CEO & Chief Engineer at Krumware
As a software engineer for critical infrastructure and real-time systems, Colin founded Krum to serve as a landing zone for the development of products and technologies which improve the quality of life for software developers and other tech professionals.
Today, Krumware enables companies to accelerate development capabilities and build better environments for their digital professionals, through implementation of cloud-native platforms and collaborative technology development.
In addition to his role as CEO at Krumware, he actively practices in cloud-native application and infrastructure development; with an emphasis on developer capabilities and platform engineering. To help facilitate the broader development of industry practices and capabilities, he serves as a Co-Organizer of the CNCF Platform Engineering Technical Community Group (formerly named the CNCF Platform Engineering Working Group).
Upcoming conference sessions featuring Colin Griffin
One Size Fits None: How Platform Engineering Must Evolve
Colin Griffin and William Rizzo explore the evolving state of platform engineering in 2026. They discuss how the discipline plays out very differently across verticals such as fintech, telco, and automotive, and why generic frameworks must be tailored to the unique regulatory, cultural, and technical realities of each industry.
The conversation moves through the growing pressure to align platform investments with measurable business outcomes, the distinct compliance challenges facing European organizations under tightening AI regulation, and the infrastructure reckoning triggered by large-scale GPU investment. Both speakers converge on a shared wish: that the CNCF Platform Engineering White Paper and Maturity Model be updated to reflect vertical-specific guidance, informed directly by end-user organizations.
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