Pat — Head of Platforms | Markets

Pat — Head of Platforms

pat

Type: Primary Persona

Responsibilities

Owns platform strategy across many domains & teams
Centralized services & tooling & guidance
Works across engineering, security, and architecture

Problem Statement	Context	Impact	Naftiko Today	Naftiko Tomorrow	Type
Need MCP to Integrate with Existing Governance Tooling Organizations need to understand how MCP fits into existing API infrastructure and governance tooling they have invested in over the past decade. Pat (Head of Platforms) — AI Context Delivery, Governance and Compliance
Need MCP Documentation The assumption that AI will figure out how to use MCP servers is wrong, and traditional documentation and discovery are still required. Pat (Head of Platforms) — AI Context Delivery
Need Auto-Discovery of API Artifacts Building an accurate catalog of APIs and services requires automated discovery rather than manual registration that developers resist. Pat (Head of Platforms) — AI Context Delivery, Discoverability and Reuse
Need to Define What Reuse Means Pat has been asked to drive API reuse but the organization has never defined what reuse means. Pat (Head of Platforms) — Discoverability and Reuse
Need Discoverability Not Just Governance Pat realizes the organization has been focused on governance when the actual problem is that teams can't find what already exists. Pat (Head of Platforms) — Discoverability and Reuse
Need Governance to Be Seamless API governance must be embedded seamlessly into the developer workflow so that the compliant way of building APIs is also the easiest and most secure way. Pat (Head of Platforms) — Governance and Compliance
Need Developer Experience Treated as Product Discipline Documentation efforts are treated as a publishing exercise rather than a product discipline that actively enables and teaches developers. Pat (Head of Platforms) — AI Context Delivery, Agent-Ready Developer Experience
Need Clear Ownership for Context Layer The repo context layer (README, CONTRIBUTING, AGENTS) has no clear owner as AI copilots roll out across IDEs. Pat (Head of Platforms) — AI Context Delivery, Agent-Ready Developer Experience
Need Continuous Agent Readiness Checks Scaling IDE copilots across hundreds of repos requires a repeatable way to verify each repository is agent-ready. Pat (Head of Platforms) — Agent-Ready Developer Experience