Pieter Kruithof

Pieter Kruithof

Pieter Kruithof is a highly pragmatic user experience research professional with deep domain experience in cloud technology spanning the infrastructure, middleware, and application layers. Over the past seven years, I’ve spoken with developers, architects, and operators over a wide range of topics including infrastructure management, CI/CD processes, and serverless.

He was previously the UX Team Lead for the OpenStack open source cloud project which included contributors from Red Hat, IBM, HPE, Intel, and Cisco.

Piet has a certified user experience professional (CUXP), scrum product owner (CSPO), and a product management level III certification from Pragmatic Research.

Most importantly, he has two Great Danes named Izzy and Pixie.

🗓️ Pieter’s talks:
1. IBM Cloud, Data, and AI Persona Toolkit: A foundation for understanding our users
2. Dear Design, I love you but I don’t know where you end and I begin