Brent Sowers
Fellow Software Architect at BlackSky
Burke, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrent Sowers is a seasoned software architect and engineering leader with 15 years of experience building and rescuing complex commercial and government systems from concept to production. Currently a Fellow Software Architect at BlackSky, he has continually advanced through hands-on principal roles driving Java, Python, AWS, and React-based architectures and large-scale database designs. He’s known for turning struggling products into stable, scalable offerings while defining technical direction, reducing technical debt, and mentoring engineers into leadership roles. Prior roles include leading major monolith-to-microservice transformations at Cvent and delivering rapid, user-focused features at Audax, demonstrating both deep technical craft and pragmatic delivery. Based in Burke, VA, he combines systems-level thinking with a history of shipping critical geospatial and signal-processing products, and he often takes direct ownership of the hardest technical challenges rather than delegating them.
15 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
UMBC
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (38)
json9
maven-plugin9
jackson9
gson9
binding9
google9
gradle-plugin9
annotate8
ruby8
webpack8
java8
javascript8
json-schema8
nodejs7
css7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
brentsowers1/coordinatecommons-frontend
Jun 2019 - Sep 2021
Front end code for the coordinate commons application web site
Contributions:4 PRs, 18 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 4 months
commonsweb-siteweb-applicationfront-endcoordinate
brentsowers1/googlestaticmap
Aug 2010 - Dec 2018
A gem for retrieving generating and retrieving maps from the Google static maps service
Contributions:64 commits, 5 PRs, 12 pushes in 8 years 5 months
googlestatic-mapsmaps-servicerubygem
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