Nic Cheneweth

Nic Cheneweth is a principal consultant and strategist at ThoughtWorks and is the founding infrastructure contributor to ThoughtWorks Digital Platform Strategy. His undergraduate studies are in computer science, and he holds an MBA, a doctorate, and a postdoctorate degree. With 30 years of executive leadership, consulting, and engineering experience in roles ranging from the courtroom to the boardroom, as a former CEO, vice president, chief counsel, director, or entrepreneur in startup, private, and publicly traded companies, Nic brings a unique perspective to technology strategy and implementation.

books & videos by Nic Cheneweth

Effective Platform Engineering Video Edition
  • Course duration: 5h 12m
Included with a Manning Online subscription

With Effective Platform Engineering you’ll be able to design, build, deploy, and scale a custom IDP. You’ll discover how platform engineering differs from DevOps and learn to create a platform that evolves with changing requirements. Diagrams, code samples, and exercises help you visualize important concepts. Along the way, you’ll explore critical topics like gathering requirements and establishing realistic service level agreements (SLAs).

Effective Platform Engineering
  • October 2025
  • ISBN 9781633436497
  • 400 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
catalog / DevOps / Infrastructure as Code
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With Effective Platform Engineering you’ll be able to design, build, deploy, and scale a custom IDP. You’ll discover how platform engineering differs from DevOps and learn to create a platform that evolves with changing requirements. Diagrams, code samples, and exercises help you visualize important concepts. Along the way, you’ll explore critical topics like gathering requirements and establishing realistic service level agreements (SLAs).