Kimball Johnson is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Progress and a seasoned DevOps practitioner with deep experience across modern infrastructure and cloud-native environments. He has built his career alongside engineers, operators, and product teams, tackling the real-world challenges of designing, building, and operating systems that must evolve without compromising reliability. Drawing on expertise in infrastructure, automation, platform engineering, and developer tooling, Kimball helps teams adopt practices tailored to their context, balancing technical rigor with sustainability, trust, and clear communication, while fostering open conversations about trade-offs, failure and continuous improvement.