Strategically Aligning Tech and Business Priorities

Before I joined Thoughtworks as a consultant in 2004, I was working at the Boston Consulting Group. Ever since studying Economics and Japanese at Harvard, I’ve been passionate about solving tough business problems, growing new businesses, and helping clients at the nexus of business and tech. In 2006, I co-founded Thoughtworks Studios, a new products division of the company. In my time at Thoughtworks, I have also had the opportunity to drive our early adoption and evangelism of Ruby on Rails, Continuous Delivery and DevOps. In 2019, I was appointed Thoughtworks’ Chief Strategic Officer, responsible for our global business strategy, planning and partnerships. I have regularly spoken at international conferences on the future of product management and innovation. I now live in San Francisco.

Kathleen Vignos is a VP of software engineering at Capital One. Her organization, Customer Resiliency, builds web, mobile, and backend applications to meet customer needs in times of financial hardship so they can resolve their debt and get back on track. These applications run on a modern stack with ML decisioning and serverless components hosted on AWS. Previously in her 6 years at Twitter, Kathleen worked on promoted tweet review, tweet translation, abuse tooling, and infrastructure automation across on-prem, Google Cloud, and AWS environments. She also ran Twitter’s development programs for engineering managers, personally training 300+ managers across the topics of people management, hiring, technical skills development, and project execution/delivery. Outside of strategic technology work, Kathleen is a distance runner and loves travel. She lives with her husband in San Francisco. They have 2 adult children and are working on plans to visit their sixth continent.