Jim Grundner is the Vice President of Engineering at Allstacks, where he brings more than two decades of experience leading engineering and product organizations across enterprise software, financial services, cybersecurity and SaaS. Before joining Allstacks, Jim served as Head of Engineering and Product at JupiterOne, spent 12 years at Fidelity Investments leading engineering for Digital Technology and Fidelity.com, and served as CTO at PeopleFluent, where he helped scale a SaaS platform used by more than 200 Fortune 500 companies.
Jim speaks from decades of real-world experience about what actually works, and what often fails, in engineering leadership, DevOps, platform engineering and AI-assisted software delivery. His current focus is helping engineering leaders understand how AI coding tools and agentic development models are changing the software delivery lifecycle, and how teams can use baselines, quality signals and delivery metrics to measure impact instead of relying on assumptions.
I've lived through five major technology shifts: mainframe to Windows in the early ‘90s, internet computing in the late ‘90s and early 2000s, Agile in the mid-2000s, cloud through the 2010s, and ...