Nobody thanks DevOps engineers

Last month we shipped a big feature. The whole team got mentioned in the user story, developer by developer. They listed everyone.

Except me.

I built the entire infrastructure. I onboarded every dev, set up their tooling, automated all deployments, built the whole skeleton. I was the circulatory system and the nervous system. But when it came time to acknowledge the work, I was invisible.

This is the daily reality for cloud architects and DevOps engineers. We’re the heart and legs of every application, but we’re constantly ignored.

Why platform engineers are invisible

You know what’s funny? When the app works, nobody thinks about infrastructure. When it breaks, everyone blames infrastructure.

We build the foundation that lets developers ship code. We automate the boring parts. We make deployments reliable. We prevent outages at 3am.

But in user stories, roadmaps, and team celebrations, we don’t exist.

It’s not malicious. It’s just how it works. The visible work gets credit. Infrastructure is invisible until it fails.

Café Cloud: putting platform engineers in the spotlight

I got tired of being invisible, so I built Café Cloud.

It’s a Discord community that wants to become a reference cloud media. The goal is simple: highlight people like us. Cloud engineers, DevOps folks, platform teams. The people who make everything run but never get the stage.

We’re already doing interviews. Every week we review CVs. We’re ambitious and we push the community forward.

This isn’t just a chat server. We’re building something real:

• Weekly CV reviews to help people land better jobs
• Interviews with cloud engineers doing interesting work
• Technical discussions that actually matter
• A space where platform work gets recognized

Why this matters

Platform engineering is critical work. You can’t ship software without it. You can’t scale without it. You can’t sleep at night without it.

But it’s treated as a cost center, not a value driver.

Café Cloud exists to change that narrative. To show that infrastructure work is creative, complex, and essential. To give platform engineers a place where their work is understood and valued.

If you’ve ever felt invisible on your team, join us. Let’s build a community where platform work isn’t an afterthought.

We’re just getting started, but we’re serious about this.