Cliff Hults

Platform Engineering Leader · DevSecOps · Cloud · AI

Platform and infrastructure engineer with 12+ years building the systems that ship software at scale. Now leading DevOps engineering at Palo Alto Networks, after architecting an enterprise DevSecOps platform supporting 2,000+ developers.

I write about DevOps, platform engineering, and running AI in production.

Recent

Designing an Automated Artifact Factory: A Case Study in Turning Pipeline Pain Into a Platform Boundary

September 20, 2026·1296 words·7 mins

Engineering Security DevOps CI/CD Platform Engineering Artifact Management Automation

The Paved Path: Making the Secure Choice the Easy Choice at Scale

May 1, 2026·1419 words·7 mins

Security Security DevSecOps Automation Security Program Design Change Management

When Your Security Tool Goes Down: Surviving an SCA Tool Outage

April 12, 2026·801 words·4 mins

Engineering Security DevOps CI/CD SCA Tool Incident Response Supply Chain

Prompt Engineering Isn't Magic — Here's How I Did It in Production

April 11, 2026·1038 words·5 mins

AI in the Trenches AI AWS Bedrock Prompt Engineering DevOps FedRAMP CI/CD

Supply Chain Attacks Start in Your Build Cache

April 11, 2026·945 words·5 mins

Engineering Security DevOps CI/CD Supply Chain Npm Artifact Management Container Orchestration

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