Jez Humble

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Jez Humble

Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic · verified 2026-07-24

Jez Humble is an award-winning author and researcher on software who has spent his career tinkering with code, infrastructure, and product development in organizations of varying sizes across three continents, most recently working for the US government at 18F. He teaches at UC Berkeley, and is CTO of DevOps Research and Assessment LLC.

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2021

BookThe DevOps Handbook

with Gene Kim, Patrick Debois & 2 others

2018

Guidance paperHow to Transform

with Nicole Forsgren & Gene Kim

2018

BookAccelerate

with Nicole Forsgren & Gene Kim

2018

TalkThe Data Behind DevOps - Becoming a High Performer

Las Vegas 2018 · 32 min

2017

TalkDevOps: The Key to High Performance (What the Data Says)

London 2017 · 31 min

2016

TalkWhat We Learned from the 2016 State of DevOps Report

San Francisco 2016 · 25 min

2015

TalkArchitecting for Continuous Delivery

San Francisco 2015 · 34 min