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Kirk Knoernschild

Managing Vice President

Kirk Knoernschild is a Managing Vice President for the Infrastructure and Operations team within Gartner for Technical Professionals. His team focuses on edge technologies. In his previous role at Gartner, Kirk served as Chief of Research for Software Engineering.

Previous experience

Prior to joining Gartner, Kirk was a software developer who was found working in the trenches on enterprise software development projects. With over 25 years of software development experience, Kirk has filled most roles on the software development team. He is an open-source contributor, author of numerous articles and books, and a frequent conference speaker. He has trained and mentored thousands of software professionals on topics including Java/J2EE, modeling, software architecture and design, component-based development, service-oriented architecture, mobile application development, web technologies, and software methodology. Kirk is trapped in a software developer's body and continues to enjoy hacking in a variety of programming.

Professional background

Burton Group

Analyst

TeamSoft

Senior Consultant

Areas of coverage

Software Engineering Technologies

Education

Bachelor of Science, Applied Mathematics

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Top Issues That I Help Clients Address

1Mobile application architecture and development

2Cloud-native applications and software architecture

3Programming languages

4Application servers and infrastructure

5Agile software development