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Newly appointed CloudBees CEO charts agentic AI engineering course. The newly appointed CEO of CloudBees, Mo Plassnig, says that as the agentic artificial intelligence (AI) era dawns, the time has come to reinvent software engineering in a way that moves beyond human-centric tooling. Plassnig, who earlier this month succeeded Anuj Kapur, joins CloudBees from Immuta, a provider of a data security and governance platform, where he served as chief product officer. However, Plassnig was also one of the founders of Codeship, a provider of a hosted continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform that CloudBees acquired in 2018. As the way applications are built and deployed fundamentally changes, DevOps workflows will need to evolve to accommodate massive amounts of code that is being generated by both professional developers and, increasingly, so-called citizen developers, said Plassnig. In fact, writing code is no longer a constraint, he added. Before too long, end users will routinely express an intent that will be converted into a set of prompts that generate not just code but also a pull request, noted Plassnig. Software engineering teams, as a result, will need to focus on how to define agentic engineering workflows that rely more on AI agents to review, observe and deploy code generated using AI coding tools. Current workflows are still far too dependent on, for example, software engineers to review code that is being created at a pace that is already overwhelming existing human-centric workflows, noted Plassnig. It will not be feasible, however, to reinvent software engineering workflows overnight. Instead, over time software engineering teams will be able to transition to agentic engineering workflows as existing tools, platforms and processes are re-engineered, said Plassnig. The challenge will be determining what mix of tools to adopt first based on how rapidly they evolve and existing commitments to CI/CD platforms such as Jenkins. Existing CI/CD investments will continue to remain relevant but increasingly the primary end user of those platforms will be AI agents, he added. Humans, instead, will assume more responsibility for overseeing the management of tasks performed by those AI agents as they mix and match AI models based on total cost and performance requirements, noted Plassnig. In fact, the overall level of stress for software engineering teams might not even decline in the age of AI, he added. Instead, as application development and deployment scale using AI agents, software engineering teams are likely to encounter different types of stress, noted Plassnig. CloudBees has not ruled out any potential acquisitions to accelerate its overall strategy, with the focus being on providing a mix of organic innovations and, if necessary, acquisitions, added Plassnig. Exactly how long it might take for each organization to fully embrace agentic engineering will naturally vary. The one thing that is certain is first movers will have a distinct advantage over rivals that find their pipelines are clogged with code that never actually makes it into a production environment. After all, the point of the exercise is not just to generate more code, but to deploy higher-quality applications faster.

CloudBees appoints Moritz Plassnig as CEO. CloudBees has announced the appointment of Moritz Plassnig as Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Plassnig succeeds Anuj Kapur, who guided the company through a period of operational transformation, profitability, and revenue growth while serving major enterprise customers. A founder of Codeship and experienced product leader, Plassnig returns to CloudBees to advance its vision for governed AI software delivery in the era of agentic coding, with a strong focus on developer trust. Plassnig, founder of Codeship, the continuous integration and delivery platform acquired by CloudBees in 2018, returns with a rare combination: deep enterprise product instincts and a track record of building tools developers love. Most recently, Moritz served as Chief Product Officer at Immuta, a data security and governance platform, where he oversaw product, engineering and customer success. He will also join the CloudBees Board of Directors. Plassnig assumes leadership at a pivotal moment for the software industry as AI is writing an increasing share of enterprise code. The enterprises CloudBees serves, including software and technology companies, financial institutions, governments, and critical infrastructure providers, want to embrace this shift. With agents now committing, testing, and deploying code autonomously, the bottleneck has shifted from generating code to governing what ultimately reaches production environments. "Software development is on the brink of its own revolution," said Moritz Plassnig, CEO of CloudBees. "Enterprises are under pressure to adopt agentic coding without losing control, and that requires oversight, auditability, and humans in the loop. CloudBees has spent more than a decade earning the trust of the world's largest and most regulated engineering organizations. The question every CIO is asking right now is: how do I move at the speed of AI without losing the ability to explain, audit, and stand behind what ships? That's the problem we're built to solve, and there's no better moment to solve it." Under Plassnig, CloudBees is moving immediately to be an AI-first company in the products it builds and ships, and in how it runs the business itself, with AI agents already embedded across CloudBees' own engineering, marketing, and customer operations. The company's open and flexible governance layer gives CIOs, CISOs, and platform leaders one place to set policy, manage risk, and maintain control over how software is built, secured, and released across every tool in their stack, not only CloudBees' own. Every change, human or AI, becomes visible, auditable, and accountable, and the Global 2000 can adopt AI-driven development securely without replacing the tools and workflows their teams already rely on. Plassnig is already engaging with customers, and this will continue to be his priority in the coming weeks. "We are grateful to Anuj for leaving CloudBees profitable and focused. But the Board didn't bring Moritz in to stay the course," said Sacha Labourey, Co-founder and Board member, CloudBees. "Agentic coding fundamentally changes what enterprises need from us, and CloudBees will change just as radically. Moritz understands what it takes to build software in the agentic era because he has done it, and that changes how he thinks about the governance enterprises require and the developer experience that makes governance something teams choose rather than tolerate. He has the urgency to lead that transformation."