Alan Kent
VP Of AI And Emerging Technologies at IM Digital
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlan Kent is a seasoned technology executive with 30+ years of engineering and leadership experience and 11 years focused on product and platform roles in industry. As VP of AI and Emerging Technologies, he applies pragmatic AI to solve business problems, translating bleeding-edge research into deployable solutions for ecommerce and search. His background includes leading large-scale search engineering at eBay, VP Architecture at Magento, developer advocacy at Google, and commercial AI consulting for SMBs, giving him rare depth across product, systems, and developer ecosystems. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from RMIT and has repeatedly moved technologies from research prototypes to production-grade systems. A search, ecommerce, and 3D animation enthusiast, he combines deep systems architecting with a product-first mindset that prioritizes measurable business outcomes. Not obvious from titles: he’s built and stewarded long-lived information-retrieval platforms beginning in academia and carried that operational perspective into cloud and AI-era architectures.
11 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at RMIT University
Github Skills (200)
toolbox10
kitematic10
svg10
3d10
adobe10
javascript10
browser10
magento10
avatar10
tarantool10
unity3d10
webgl10
csslint10
affiliates10
sass-lint10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
alankent/OrdinaryCartoonMaker
Dec 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:27 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
alankent/module-graphql
May 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:30 commits, 27 pushes in 3 months
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