Kyle has worked on IT performance for over 20 years. He was a principle designer at Oracle on the Enterprise Manager performance monitoring interface which was implemented under waterfall methods. Following that he was the designer and product manager of DB Optimizer at Embarcadero using agile methodologies to deliver every version on schedule. Now he works at Delphix bringing agility to one of the biggest hurdles to application development efficiency which is managing large amounts of data when trying to implement agile practices and continuous integration to support rapid flow of features, from development to operations to the production. Kyle holds patents in the area of database performance and speaks around the world at conferences.