Famous for creating Jenkins, Kohsuke is passionate about solving problems developers face every day. Previously, as  Chief Technology Officer at CloudBees, he helped create its Jenkins business. He is an O’Reilly Open-source Award recipient, JavaOne Rockstar, Japan OSS Contributor Award recipient, and a Rakuten Technology Award recipient. Before joining CloudBees, Kawaguchi was with Sun Microsystems and Oracle, where he worked on a variety of projects and initiated the open source work that led to Jenkins.