I currently live in a small village north of Berlin with my family and several chickens.
Email: kaspar@vongruenberg.com and my LinkedIn.
Professional interests
I work on advancing Platform Engineering into the operating model for knowledge work in the enterprise, grounded in a software engineering perspective.
I have founded several companies and institutions in this space and rolled out many platforms hands-on.
I write independently about the theory that underpins this work in the form of a book, essays, videos, and a newsletter.
Current focus: how platforms enable enterprise AI adoption.
Private interests
Europe, Klezmer and Baroque music, and collective behavior and opinion dynamics in large populations.
Biases
I try to keep commercial interests and my theoretical work clearly separated. Check my bias statement.
Interviews
- Barry O'Reilly, Unlearn - on building developer platforms, mentorship, and elite performance
- Kelsey Hightower, PlatformCon - on the origins, lessons, and future of platform engineering
- Ganesh Datta, Braintrust by Cortex - on why software production must move beyond artisanal execution
- Ivan Krnić, 0800-DEVOPS - on platform engineering as controlled, value-creating systems design