Kristen is a Technical Lead at Pluralsight's Technology Center of Excellence, where she enables engineering excellence across her company through the planning and execution of technical upskilling initiatives. She is a former ESL/EFL instructor who spent her early career teaching English as a Foreign Language in South Korea, as well as Academic English and Composition at Colorado State University. She transitioned into a career in software development in 2016, and through learning programming languages, has been delighted to observe the many similarities between learning human and computer languages.

Improve your learning culture with retrospectives
26 May 2023 Article

Improve your learning culture with retrospectives

Kristen Foster Marks
Kristen Foster-Marks
8 mins
Upskill Your Engineers Strategically: How to Conduct a Needs Analysis to Identify What Your Engineering Teams Need to Learn
17 Dec 2022 Conference session

Upskill Your Engineers Strategically: How to Conduct a Needs Analysis to Identify What Your Engineering Teams Need to Learn

Kristen Foster Marks
Kristen Foster-Marks
Using a learning-themed retrospective to strengthen your team’s learning culture and reduce learning debt
17 Dec 2022 Conference session

Using a learning-themed retrospective to strengthen your team’s learning culture and reduce learning debt

Kristen Foster Marks
Kristen Foster-Marks
How a year in engineering leadership has made me a better individual contributor
24 Mar 2022 Conference session

How a year in engineering leadership has made me a better individual contributor

Kristen Foster Marks
Kristen Foster-Marks
15 mins