Summary
Kelly Schlamb is a seasoned technology leader with a 30-year track record at IBM, blending deep Db2 kernel engineering experience with strategic enablement of sales and technical teams. Currently leading an AI engineering team, she builds generative AI solutions to accelerate sales enablement and learning content generation while evangelizing watsonx data and AI capabilities. Her background spans delivering critical Db2 features—logging/recovery, storage management, pureScale—and resolving high-profile customer incidents, giving her rare credibility across development, product, and client-facing roles. Known for turning complex data and analytics concepts into "gold standard" training and collateral, she pairs hands-on coding passion with people leadership and global speaking experience. A detail that often surprises: despite long management tenure she still contributes to code and architecture, keeping her technical edge current in cloud, machine learning, and generative AI.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science (with Honours), Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science (with Honours), Computer Science at University of Manitoba