Kimball Johnson
Senior Product Marketing Manager at Progress Software
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKimball Johnson is a Senior Product Marketing Manager and former Developer Advocate with 12 years of hands-on experience in DevOps, automation, and developer enablement, now based in London. He combines deep technical skills—building Chef cookbooks, Packer templates, CI/CD pipelines and Docker-based virtual labs—with a proven track record of translating those capabilities into product-led growth through content, training and on-site demos. Across roles at Chef, Kong, Appsembler and enterprise retailers, he’s bridged engineering, management and practitioners to drive adoption, mentor teams and launch training platforms on fixed deadlines. Notably, he pairs systems automation expertise with embedded programming and event management experience from work outside employment, giving him a pragmatic, customer-focused perspective on product positioning.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at Lancaster University
Github Skills (107)
test-kitchen10
python10
testing10
chef-client10
micropython10
embedded10
microcontroller10
kitchen10
rackup9
ruby9
rmagick9
infrastructure9
cookbook9
vagrant8
webapp8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
drrk/etr-expensetracker
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
expense tracker app from Effective Testing with RSpec 3
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
trackerrailstestingeffectiveexpense
drrk/aoc
Dec 2016 - Dec 2024
Contributions:28 pushes, 3 branches in 8 years 1 month
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