Allen Holub

Allen Holub is the Principle of Holub Associates, an academic, keynote speaker and leading software architect and consultant internationally renowned for his expertise in organisation agility. He has spent the past four decades pioneering agile-friendly implementation technology such as microservice, incremental evolutionary architecture and is a specialist at creating highly functional lean/agile organisations and building software suitable for agile environments at scale. Allen offers in-house training and consulting services for organisations, teams, and individuals.

Beginning his career as a hardware engineer, Allen quickly realised he was a highly skilled developer when he wrote a compiler and real-time operating system for his robotics team. He graduated with an AB in Computer Science and Medieval History from the University of California Berkeley. Since his graduation, he has led a highly technical career applying his expertise in commercially, web-based, and otherwise, also serving twice as a CTO for early-stage start-ups. Exceptionally talented, Allen has been an instructor since 1983 at the University of California Berkeley Extension, continuously receiving the highest ratings in his department. He has held several advisory posts and is highly sought after as a consultant and software developer as Principle of Holub Associates.

In 2021 Allen was endowed with the position of Chan-Noris Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Mills College, where he continues to teach Agile processes innovatively. Allen has made a major contribution to the literature with 10 published books and hundreds of articles in academic journals. He is also a contributing editor for both Dr Dobb’s Journal and Java World writing highly complex content often with profound implications for the specialists in his sector. His C Chest column written in the 80s actively led to the introduction of the C programming language to the programming community.

Allen has also produced an array of video classes that have featured on Pluralsight, LinkedIn Learning and O’Reilly. A deeply eminent scholar of the highest calibre in the field of organisational agility, Allen Holub’s expertise span four decades making him a truly exceptional speaker to book.