Nicole Forsgren Velasquez is an American technology executive, IT impact expert, and author. In 2020 she was named vice-president of Research & Strategy at Microsoft's GitHub[1][2] and more recently Partner at Microsoft Research.[3] She is coauthor of Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps which won the Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award in 2019.[4]
In 2020, Forsgren was hired by Github as the VP of Research and Strategy.[5] She served as Director of Organizational Performance and Analytics at Chef Software from 2014 to 2015. Forsgren was CEO and co-founder of DevOps Research and Assessment LLC (DORA) with Jez Humble and Gene Kim. DORA is known for the annual State of DevOps report, and their DevOps Scorecard.[6] In 2018 DORA was purchased by Google.[7]