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title: "About us | Platform Engineering Labs"
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# About us

![Pavlo Baron](https://platform.engineering/media/about-us/pavlo_baron-600x600.webp?__frsh_c=yaatrendj12y)

#### Pavlo Baron

CEO

Former co-founder / CTO / major inventor of Instana, acquired by IBM in 2020. Former IBM, HypoVereinsbank, Sixt and many more. Started his career more than 35 years ago hacking in Assembly.

![Zachary Schneider](https://platform.engineering/media/about-us/zachary_schneider-600x600.webp?__frsh_c=yaatrendj12y)

#### Zachary Schneider

CTO

Former core iCloud team at Apple. Built public clouds at Rackspace and HP. Spent many years building and operating large-scale technology at startups such as Instana, Boundary, Kurrent and many more.

### Featured in

![Forbes](https://platform.engineering/media/formae/forbes-800c.webp?__frsh_c=yaatrendj12y)

![The New Stack](https://platform.engineering/media/formae/thenewstack-1032c.webp?__frsh_c=yaatrendj12y)

![InfoQ](https://platform.engineering/media/formae/infoq-148c.webp?__frsh_c=yaatrendj12y)

![SiliconANGLE](https://platform.engineering/media/formae/siliconangle-1014c.webp?__frsh_c=yaatrendj12y)

![The Crew](https://platform.engineering/media/about-us/team-600x600.webp?__frsh_c=yaatrendj12y)

#### The Crew

Unique practitioners combining years of engineering excellence and operations experience.
Command armies of AI agents.