Kohsuke Kawaguchi
Co-CEO, Launchable, Inc. Creator of Jenkins.
Kohsuke Kawaguchi is the creator of Jenkins and co-CEO of Launchable. He is a well-respected developer and popular speaker at industry and Jenkins community events. Kawaguchis sensibilities in creating Jenkins and his deep understanding of how to translate its capabilities into usable software have also had a major impact on CloudBees strategy as a company. Before joining CloudBees, Kawaguchi was with Sun Microsystems and Oracle, where he worked on a variety of projects and initiated the open source work that led to Jenkins.
Presentations
It was 2004 when I started writing what then became Jenkins at Sun Microsystems. In hindsight, this was a part of the beginning of what later evolved into “developer productivity”.
That evolution took 20 years, and is still in the making. I saw this up close, first at an OSS project (Jenkins), then at a vendor (CloudBees), and now at a different company (Launchable).
I'd like to share what I saw in this journey, how developer productivity evolved, and where it's going. I'd like to show you different teams I've come across, who are at different stages.