Kevin Jenkins
VP, Product & Engineering
- Role
- VP of Product & Engineering at Metafora
- Location
- Hillsborough, NC, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Kevin Jenkins
I am passionate about helping organizations unlock exceptional software delivery performance. I\'ve spent my career obsessing over how to make shipping software faster, safer, and more predictable. I\'m a firm believer that when you get the tooling and the culture right, the business results naturally follow.• Technology leader with over 25 years of software engineering experience• Long track record of building high-performing organizations with low attrition rates• Amplifying the software delivery value stream with AI and humans in the loop• Extensive experience in coaching Agile approaches to product development (Scrum, Kanban, XP)
Experience
VP of Product & Engineering
Jan 2024 — Present
Amplifying the entire software delivery value stream with AI to safely ship software over 50% faster than last year, with fewer resources per project• Led initiative to build an internal AI agent to triage support tickets and provide detailed knowledge on client configurations• Deliver cloud agnostic apps and services, utilizing all modern tech stacks, containerized and orchestrated via Kubernetes deployed to all major cloud platforms, including Azure, AWS, and GCP• Coach Continuous Delivery (frequent on demand deployments to production in small batches) built upon the practices of continuous testing, trunk-based development, continuous integration, feature management with LaunchDarkly, and pipeline optimization• Responsible for effective account management and participate in key sales activities
Education
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bachelor's degree
Appalachian State University
Management Information Systems
Skills
- Enterprise Software
- Advertising
- C#
- Networking
- Web Design
- Kibana
- Information Architecture
- Project Management
- Databases
- Social Media Marketing
- Social Media
- Web Development
- Microsoft Exchange
- Software Development
- Scrum
- Strategic Planning
- Elasticsearch
- Microsoft Sql Server
- Online Advertising
- Agile Methodologies
- Product Development
- Management
- Entrepreneurship
- Active Directory
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