Grant Jenks is a technical leader with 16 years of experience in turning research and product ideas into high performance software. For the last four years, he has worked at LinkedIn in the Productivity Engineering organization on the Productivity Insights team. Productivity Insights works like a "Fitbit for engineering teams" to identify and improve pain points in developer workflows. Prior to LinkedIn, Grant founded an adtech analytics company and applied expertise in distributed systems and machine learning to predict search engine rankings. His work in analytics was a pivot from his initial role as a compiler engineer on the Midori OS incubation project at Microsoft.