Brent Rhymes
Retired Technology Executive
Greater Abilene Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrent Rhymes is a retired technology executive with 34 years of leadership experience building and scaling software and services across startups and public companies, most recently serving as CEO of Strata Information Group. He combines deep technical roots—a BS in Computer Science and early work on Space Shuttle onboard systems—with a long track record of founding, scaling, and exiting companies (several acquired) and holding executive roles at firms like Synacor and Zimbra. Hands-on enough to contribute backend improvements to notable open-source projects such as Forem, he cares about performance, reliability, and pragmatic engineering trade-offs. Now focused on ranch life and family in West Texas, he remains open to board roles and mentoring, offering a calm, experienced perspective on growth and operational execution. An interesting throughline in his career is balancing high-growth tech leadership with entrepreneurial ventures like a cow-calf ranch, reflecting a blend of strategic rigor and grounded, real-world problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Brazoswood High SchoolMBA Marketing, MBA Marketing at University of St. Thomas (TX)Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
English
Github Skills (9)
ruby-rails10
rails10
back-end-development10
ruby10
caching9
database-design9
notification8
ruby-on-rails8
performance-optimization8
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
forem/forem
Aug 2018 - Oct 2021
For empowering community 🌱
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3349 reviews, 811 commits, 2141 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Brent focused on improving the back-end functionality and performance by moving badge achievement notifications to ActiveJob. They also made code optimizations, removing remnants of the Flipflop library. Furthermore, the user contributed to the core application by addressing various tasks like the addition of a setting to show the correct email, and improving the RSS feed feature. This involved modifications to the database schema, models, and services related to notification jobs and caching.
reactrailsrubyempoweringfeedback
rhymes/devto-py
Mar 2019 - Dec 2022
Dev.to REST API client
Contributions:27 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
api-clientapipythondevtodev
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