Jez Humble s a vice president at Chef, and co-author of the Jolt Award winning Continuous Delivery (Addison Wesley, 2010), and the Lean Enterprise (O'Reilly, 2014). He has been fascinated by computers and electronics since getting his first ZX Spectrum aged 11, and spent several years hacking on Acorn machines in 6502 and ARM assembler and BASIC until he was old enough to get a proper job. He got into IT in 2000, just in time for the dot com bust. Since then he has worked as a developer, system administrator, trainer, consultant, manager, and speaker. He has worked with a variety of platforms and technologies, consulting for non-profits, telecoms, financial services and on-line retail companies. From 2004 – 2014 he worked for ThoughtWorks and ThoughtWorks Studios in Beijing, Bangalore, London and San Francisco. He holds a BA in Physics and Philosophy from Oxford University and an MMus in Ethnomusicology from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is presently working for Chef and living in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and daughters.
Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale
Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation
Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations