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91st percentile
Tripwire founder/CTO, bestselling DevOps author, IT Revolution founder
Credibility
Domain Expertise · 95th percentile
- Deep research credibility: h-index 52 with 10,506 citations across 429 works on OpenAlex.
- Domain expertise: WSJ-bestselling author of The Phoenix Project, The Unicorn Project, The DevOps Handbook, and Accelerate — over 1 million copies sold across DevOps and IT operations.
- Notability: Wikidata entity Q5531290 describes him as American entrepreneur, researcher, and author.
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)36,477 LinkedIn followers — broad professional reach.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)itrevolution.com ranks #47,552 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Past founder and CTO of Tripwire, Inc., the enterprise security software company.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Notability: Wikidata entity Q5531290 describes him as American entrepreneur, researcher, and author.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Current founder of IT Revolution and lead organizer of the Enterprise Technology Leadership Summit.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Domain expertise: WSJ-bestselling author of The Phoenix Project, The Unicorn Project, The DevOps Handbook, and Accelerate — over 1 million copies sold across DevOps and IT operations.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Co-founded Tripwire with Dr. Gene Spafford at Purdue University.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Tripwire was acquired by private equity firm Thoma Bravo in 2011 after abandoning its IPO.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Also founded the IT Process Institute.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Google Knowledge Graph maintains a knowledge panel for Gene Kim as an author.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Tenured GitHub account (@genekim) active since 2010.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Tripwire raised $29M in venture funding across four rounds before being acquired.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Conference talk 'Beyond the Phoenix Project: A Conversation With Gene Kim and John Willis' has 7,261 YouTube views across 9 corroborated videos.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Recognized as one of ComputerWorld's '40 Innovative IT People Under The Age Of 40'.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Deep research credibility: h-index 52 with 10,506 citations across 429 works on OpenAlex.
What you likely need
You're a globally recognized DevOps thought leader and Tripwire founder whose value now lies in connecting elite operators, authors, and engineering leaders. The most useful Festival events for you are small, curated dinners with senior technology executives, fellow authors, and founders building the next generation of developer tooling and AI-powered engineering platforms. Lean into positioning and intros — you don't need fundraising help, but you do benefit from sharper feedback loops with builders shipping today.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
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- positioningAn intimate dinner with fellow bestselling tech authors (Accelerate, Team Topologies, Staff Engineer) to swap notes on the next research book.
- introsA roundtable with Fortune 500 CTOs and platform-engineering VPs to source case studies for the next Enterprise Technology Leadership Summit.
- tacticalAn AI-coding-tools happy hour with founders of Cursor, Sourcegraph, and Cognition to pressure-test your 'vibe coding' research angle.
- introsA Tripwire/Thoma Bravo alumni mixer to reconnect with former colleagues now running security and infra companies.
- tacticalA workshop with DORA-style researchers and academics to design the next benchmarking study on AI-augmented engineering productivity.
- positioningA small dinner with top engineering-leadership podcast hosts to line up a coordinated launch tour for your next book.
- wellbeingA founder-author wellbeing retreat for long-tenured operators balancing writing, research, and community-building.