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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
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