Jen Krieger

Chief Operating Officer

Fort Collins, Colorado, United States26 yrs 5 mos experience

Key Highlights

Led transformation of $2B Red Hat Enterprise Linux business.
Scaled Kubernetes team growth at Red Hat.
Cultivated DevOps culture for agile delivery teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in Open Source Software with expertise in Agile methodologies and team transformation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Agile MethodologiesLeadershipTeam AlignmentContinuous IntegrationDevops CulturePortfolio ManagementStrategy Execution

Other Skills

Process ImprovementTeam BuildingStrategic ConsensusAgile DeliveryRelationship BuildingProject Portfolio ManagementProgram ManagementPMPResource ManagementSDLCAgile Project ManagementRequirements GatheringVendor ManagementCMBSIntegration

About

Jen Krieger is a technology enthusiast with 25+ years of experience in delivering software and infrastructure development products in open source software environments. She is passionate about building strong happy teams, taking a no BS approach, and ensuring that effective lean process improvement is a cornerstone of any organizations she supports. She is most proud of the time she spent as Red Hat's Chief Agilist, leading teams into agility in a way that respected and supported Red Hat’s commitment to Open Source, while modernizing and transforming their $2B Red Hat Enterprise Linux business. Jen worked for GitHub as the VP of Engineering Operations and Chief of Staff to the Chief Technology Officer but is currently on a well deserved sabbatical for 2025.

Experience

26 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

2 mos

Current Experience

Spec kitty

Chief Operating Officer

Mar 2026 – Present · 2 mos

Career break

Gap year

Feb 2025 – Mar 2026 · 1 yr 1 mo

Github

3 roles

VP of Engineering Ops & Chief of Staff to the CTO

Promoted

Sep 2022 – Feb 2025 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Head of Engineering Operations, Execution & Improvement

Promoted

May 2022 – Sep 2022 · 4 mos

Head of Technical Program Management

May 2021 – May 2022 · 1 yr

Agile denver

2 roles

President Of The Board Of Directors

Promoted

Nov 2021 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos

Agile Denver is an outreach organization for agile and lean practice in the Denver area. The organization strives to facilitate quality events to our members, helping them become better agilists. Agile Denver is a 501(c)(6) nonprofit and annually hosts Mile High Agile, which is staffed entirely by volunteers.
https://www.agile-denver.org/

Member Board Of Directors

Mar 2019 – Nov 2021 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Agile Denver is an outreach organization for agile and lean practice in the Denver area. The organization strives to facilitate quality events to our members, helping them become better agilists. Agile Denver is a 501(c)(6) nonprofit and annually hosts Mile High Agile, which is staffed entirely by volunteers.
https://www.agile-denver.org/

Red hat

4 roles

Chief Agilist

Mar 2016 – May 2021 · 5 yrs 2 mos

Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Impact: 1500+ associates, $2B Revenue
Designed, developed and executed against a multi-year organizational improvement strategy for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux business. This strategy was implemented in a two pronged approach:
Modernized process, communication and planning for the development organizations with the outcome of achieving a fixed 6-month cadence release.
Realigned the entire RHEL business unit function with the outcome of positioning the organization to address changes in the market and ensure that Engineering builds what RH's customers need.
Products & Technologies Agile Practice, Impact: 9600+ associates
Built a continuous improvement organization focused on empowering teams to take responsibility over their work by building a culture of decentralized decision making, increased understanding of open and transparent communication and collaboration, and effective implementation of lightweight agility over process-heavy deployments. As a result of the effectiveness of this team, Red Hat invested in continuous improvement coaches; scaling coverage from one to ~50 individuals.

Agile Coach

Promoted

Nov 2014 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos

OpenShift Container Platform, Impact: 350+ associates
Rapidly scaled the growth of Red Hat’s early Kubernetes team by consolidating several divisions, aligned them to a common way of working, and achieved strategic consensus between two ‘at odds’ business units with contrary business goals.

Agile MethodologiesProcess ImprovementLeadershipTeam Building

Product Owner for DevOps Enablement

Promoted

Oct 2013 – Nov 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo

Working in Red Hat IT to enable Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery for agile delivery teams, while cultivating a DevOps and Open Source culture.

Agile MethodologiesTeam AlignmentStrategic Consensus

Senior Program Manager

Dec 2012 – Oct 2013 · 10 mos

Provided skills, knowledge and expertise to support the vision to “change the face of Portfolio Management at Red Hat” as well as to build relationships across the organization to gain support and increase speed of execution of new strategies.

Continuous IntegrationDevOps CultureAgile Delivery

Rti international

Project Manager

Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 · 0 mo

Portfolio ManagementStrategy ExecutionRelationship Building

Lnr property llc

Project Manager/Scrum Master/Whatnot

Jan 1999 – Jan 2012 · 13 yrs · Miami, FL

Jack of all trades where software development projects are concerned; business analyst, project manager, help desk support, QA, service delivery manager, scrum master, agile coach. The only thing I did not do is code.