Summary
Rachel Reinitz is an IBM Fellow and technology executive with 11 years in senior engineering leadership and two decades of hands-on development experience, currently serving as VP and CTO for Americas Client Engineering. She founded and led IBM’s Bluemix Garage and IBM Garage initiatives, pioneering cloud-native product development practices—Design Thinking, Lean Startup, and CI/CD—to help enterprises and startups rapidly deliver high-quality mobile and web applications. Known for building teams and cultures that blend startup speed with enterprise rigor, she has driven API, SOA and cloud application strategy across global delivery centers in San Francisco, London and Toronto. Based in London with strong ties to IBM’s US ecosystem, she combines systems engineering rigor (M.E., University of Virginia) and practical software craftsmanship dating back to early web-era roles. Notably, she has scaled a consulting practice into a repeatable innovation model that embeds modern engineering practices into large organizations.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Civil Engineering, B.S., Civil Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
M.E., Systems Engineering, M.E., Systems Engineering at University of Virginia