Gene Kim
Author, Researcher at Book: "The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win"
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolGene Kim is a bestselling author, researcher, and founder who has studied high-performing technology organizations since 1999 and led Tripwire as CTO for 13 years. He co-authored influential books including The Phoenix Project, The DevOps Handbook and Accelerate, which together have sold over a million copies and shaped how large enterprises approach DevOps and IT transformation. As founder of the IT Process Institute and organizer of the DevOps Enterprise Summit, he benchmarks and distills practical, prescriptive guidance from hundreds of complex technology transformations. His work uniquely bridges enterprise security, operational rigor, and organizational culture—turning research into repeatable practices that improve both performance and auditability. Based in Portland, Oregon, he combines academic rigor (MS, Purdue alumnus) with hands-on product and research experience, and continues to write and advise on scaling technology-led change.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaB.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Purdue University
Github Skills (115)
datalog10
temporal10
bitemporal9
intellij-plugin9
database9
vega-lite9
cql9
nav9
vega9
kaitai-struct9
memgraph9
aerospike9
xtdb9
data-visualizations9
babashka8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
realgenekim/graph-git-doc
Feb 2019 - Oct 2022
Contributions:12 commits in 3 years 8 months
realgenekim/google-cloud
Sep 2018 - Mar 2021
A Clojure library providing access to Google services.
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 6 months
googlegoogle-cloud-platformclojure-librarygoogle-cloudgoogle-services
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