Brent Kastner
Partner & CTO at INaudio
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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SeniorBrent Kastner is a seasoned technology leader and entrepreneur with over 12 years building full-stack and mobile-first products, currently serving as Partner & CTO at INaudio and CTO at Tarmac.IO. He combines hands-on engineering—especially mobile app development—with strategic leadership across distributed teams in the US, Latin America, Europe, and Brazil. Brent has a strong track record founding and scaling companies and platforms (including RockStar Software, URTURN, and roles as CTO/VP at GovDelivery and HomeSpotter), turning complex data and operational challenges into production-ready services. He emphasizes craftsmanship: TDD, CI/CD, and "devops as a product" to ensure software that survives and thrives in production. An active contributor to developer tooling, he improved LinkedIn API integrations and test coverage in open-source work, reflecting a practical focus on backend reliability and QA. Based in Minneapolis, he pairs entrepreneurial risk-taking with a disciplined, communication-first approach to building high-performing engineering organizations.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (6)
testing10
api10
apidoc10
linkedin-api10
ruby10
vcr9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hexgnu/linkedin
Jan 2014 - Jan 2014
Ruby wrapper for the LinkedIn API
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & QA Engineer
Backend Developer & QA EngineerContributions:8 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Brent primarily focused on enhancing the LinkedIn API wrapper's functionality and testing capabilities. They implemented features for searching by email, including support for multiple email addresses. Additionally, they added tests for unauthorized responses and refactored existing tests for clarity. These changes included modifications to the API query methods and improvements to the test suite, suggesting a focus on both backend logic and quality assurance.
api-clientapiruby-wrapperrubylinkedin
brentkastner/otp
Nov 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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