About me
Gene Kim has been studying high-performing technology organizations since 1999. He was the founder and CTO of Tripwire, Inc., an enterprise security software company, where he served for 13 years. His books have sold over 1 million copies—he is the WSJ bestselling author of The Unicorn Project, and co-author of Wiring the Winning Organization, The Phoenix Project, The DevOps Handbook, and the Shingo Publication Award-winning Accelerate. His latest book, Vibe Coding, was released in October 2025.
In 2025, he won the Philip Crosby Medal from the American Society for Quality (ASQ) for his work in the 2023 book Wiring the Winning Organization. Since 2014, he has been the organizer of DevOps Enterprise Summit (now Enterprise Technology Leadership Summit), studying the technology transformations of large, complex organizations.
