Nicole Forsgren
Developer Experience Expert And Diet Coke Lover at Google
United States
Summary
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SeniorNicole Forsgren is a developer experience expert, researcher, and founder with 11+ years driving technology strategy and large-scale transformation across Google, Microsoft, GitHub, and her acquired startup DORA. As co-creator of the DORA metrics and the SPACE framework and author of the Shingo Award-winning book Accelerate, she blends rigorous research with product and go-to-market execution to help enterprises measure and improve software delivery. She specializes in applying AI to enhance developer productivity and release engineering, translating multi-year research horizons into practical roadmaps and product improvements. Her background spans hands-on systems work (IBM), academia, and executive leadership, giving her an uncommon mix of technical depth, empirical rigor, and commercial savvy. A Diet Coke lover who turns data into real-world impact, she has influenced major consultancies and built a partner ecosystem that scaled DORA from research into industry-standard practice.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developerProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nicolefv/github-slideshow
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
A robot powered training repository :robot:
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
roboticsrosrobottraining
nicolefv/workout-weight-calc
Jan 2025 - Jan 2025
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 11 days
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