Meet DORA’s Research Team

Derek DeBellis

Derek is a quantitative user experience researcher at Google and the lead investigator for DORA. Derek focuses on survey research, logs analysis, and figuring out ways to measure concepts that demonstrate a product or feature is delivering capital-v value to people. Derek has published on human-AI interaction, the impact of COVID-19’s onset on smoking cessation, designing for NLP errors, the role of UX in privacy discussions, team culture, and AI’s relationship to employee well-being and productivity. His current extracurricular research is exploring ways to simulate the propagation of beliefs and power.

Dr. Kevin M. Storer

Dr. Kevin M. Storer is a qualitative researcher at Google, where he leads ethnographic research for the DORA team. Kevin has been conducting human-centered studies of software developers since 2015, spanning diverse problem contexts, participant profiles, and research methods. Kevin’s research has been published in top scientific venues on the topics of artificial intelligence, ubiquitous computing, and interaction design.

Daniella Villalba, PhD

Daniella Villalba is a user experience researcher at Google. She uses survey research to understand the factors that make developers happy and productive. Before Google, Daniella studied the benefits of meditation training, and the psycho-social factors that affect the experiences of college students. She received her PhD in Experimental Psychology from Florida International University.)

Meet the DORA Collective

The collective includes current and former leaders, researchers, authors, and subject matter experts who have all made significant contributions to the research program.

• Allison Park
• Amanda Lewis
• Ambar Murillo
• Ameer Abbas
• Ben Jose
• Benjamin Good
• Betsalel (Saul) Williamson
• Brenna Washington
• Cedric Yao
• Claire Peters
• Daniel Rock, Ph.D.
• Dave Farley
• Dave Stanke
• Denali Lumma
• Dhruv Agarwal
• Dustin Smith
• Edward Fraser
• Eirini Kalliamvakou, Ph.D.
• Eric Maxwell
• Frank Xu
• Gene Kim
• James Brookbank
• Jeffrey P. Winer, PhD
• Jerome Simms
• Jessie Frazelle
• Jessie Young
• Jez Humble
• John Speed Mayers
• Kim Castillo
• Lisa Crispin
• Lolly Chessie
• Lucia Subatin
• Matt Beane, Ph.D.
• Michelle Irvine
• Nathen Harvey
• Nicole Forsgren, PhD
• Rob Edwards
• Sarah D’Angelo, Ph.D.
• Sarah Inman, Ph.D.
• Seth Rosenblatt
• Steve Fenton
• Steve McGhee
• Steve Yegge
• Todd Kulesza
• Vivian Hu

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