🇺🇸 Ken McKnight - Sr. Solutions Architect

Hi! I'm Ken McKnight, a Sr. Solutions Architect at GitLab working with Enterprise customers. My focus is on helping customers get the most business value out of GitLab across the SDLC. This includes git SCM, CI, and security scanning (AI-powered, of course).

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💻 What I Do

• Talk to companies about their challenges and see how GitLab can help
• Demo GitLab
• Execute Proof of Values (aka POC)
• Provide Value Stream Workshops

❤️ What I Love about GitLab

• Issues and Merge Requests (MR) - so smooth to go from idea to coding on a branch with easy team collaboration
• Service Desk - fantastic way to track customer issues
• Our CI pipelines + runners - getting automation up and running quickly
• Security scanners - fit right into our CI pipelines
• GitLab Duo - code generation and chat

📰 Favorite GitLab Blogs

• 10 best practices for using AI-powered GitLab Duo Chat
• Measuring AI effectiveness beyond developer productivity metrics
• Learning Python with a little help from AI

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🎻 Spare Time

In my spare time I am a violist in several music groups in the San Francisco Bay Area, including Cambrian Symphony and San Jose Lyric Theatre.