Perry is on a mission to change the world—one high-performing software team at a time. His passion is in software product development and helping organizations tackle their toughest technical, organizational, and cultural challenges, enabling them to deliver better software sooner.

With a career spanning over four decades, Perry has worked across industries like energy, defense, aerospace, finance, and healthcare. Influenced by thought leaders such as Kent Beck, Marty Cagan, Esther Derby, Gerald Weinberg, and Joshua Kerievsky, he has adopted a broad, insightful approach to building exceptional teams and delivering impactful software products.

Perry believes great software comes from product-focused, cross-functional teams aligned with a product’s value stream, with a team culture grounded in psychological safety, and backed by the right skills and knowledge.

Success, Perry says, lies in a team’s ability to quickly learn and master new skills—whether in product discovery, technical practices, or collaboration. As an Agile/Lean coach and trainer, Perry helps teams worldwide develop these skills to ensure they are not just building the product right, but most importantly, building the right product.

Throughout his career, Perry has held many transformational leadership roles as well as many other development team roles including full-stack developer, technical lead, architect, tester, and product manager. These experiences give him a deep understanding of the challenges product teams face and how to overcome them. Above all, Perry finds joy in making software development more fun and rewarding for everyone involved.

Perry holds a BS in Computer Science from The University of Oklahoma. He lives in Edmond, OK, with his wife and their Siberian Husky, and enjoys restoring historic homes and classic cars in his spare time.