Hello. My name is Caleb Jenkins. I speak at conferences, blog sometimes. I’ve been a consultant, product cloud architect, people leader, led teams across multiple continents, managed User Experience (UX) product design teams, co-chaired the Employee Innovation Council for the largest software company in the Travel industry and have led multi-team agile transformations as an Agile Coach. More recently I led a cross-functional agile team in Detroit for Quicken Loans / Rocket Mortgage, worked as a cloud architect for YPO, and led several teams as a Director of Software Development at Solera. Currently, I lead a developer experience team in the fintech space, focusing on improving developer experiences and productivity at scale across thousands of internal teams.
I also founded and was the Principal Mentor at Proaction Mentor(s), before that I was the Senior Software Architect at Six Flags Corporation and a Principal with Improving Enterprises. You may also know me from my work with the Microsoft Corporation as a Developer Evangelist technology expert, or as a national speaker for the International .NET Association (INETA via the Wayback Machine). I also was a Microsoft MVP for ASP.NET for 6 years, am a member of Microsoft’s ASP.NET Insiders program, and am a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and Professional Scrum Master (PSM). I’ve worked as a technical editor and author for Wrox Press, and was a featured presenter on xTrain (now defunct) and Adobe.TV, and a featured speaker at the SELA developer conference in Tel Aviv, Israel.
I live in the Dallas area where I continue to date my beautiful wife and busy myself trying to keep up with our four children. Occasionally I write curriculum, speak at conferences, and write code.
I build technology and people – not always in that order.
Why Developing UX?
The name for this blog comes from the combination of several ideas. First, that creating (or developing) greater User Experiences (UX) is a process and necessary for better applications. Second, UX is more than UI, more than what you can see. A better user experience involves the entire application. Security, performance, availability – these are all parts of an application that aren’t normally thought of as the UX, but they are, and they do. So, Developing UX will hopefully be about the merging of great software development with incredible UX.
What other’s have to say…
See my complete resume here, (PDF format) and then check out my overview pdf.
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