Dave Laribee

David Laribee is a coach, developer, teacher, international speaker, and co-founder of Nerd/Noir. Over the last 25 years, he’s helped transform and develop digital product development teams and organizations across a wide variety of industries, including banking, retail, technology, insurance, defense, and higher education.

David has been at the forefront of several movements in software development. He helped create the dojo approach to immersive learning, popularize lean and kanban methods, and introduce product thinking to the agile landscape. As an engineering leader, David was an early adopter of eXtreme Programming and Domain Driven Design. David is a former Microsoft MVP in both Solutions Architecture and C# and co-founder of the ALT.NET movement, with dozens of user groups across the globe dedicated to open source and modern engineering practices.

Before founding Nerd/Noir, David served as Head of Dojos for Cprime and coached the product development teams at VersionOne, a market leader in agile management tooling. These days you can find him working across several active dojos, collaborating with leaders on strategy, and helping to build capable coaching teams at Fortune 500 and scale-up firms.

David started work life at age five on a farm in Upstate NY — an upbringing that accounts for his lead-from-the-front approach, appreciation for small/cross-disciplinary teams, and disdain for fake maple syrup.