Brent Yarger
Senior Software Engineer at Kong Inc.
California, United States
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Top SchoolBrent Yarger is a Senior Software Engineer based in California with over a decade of experience building middleware and integration solutions using Java ecosystems like Spring, Hibernate, JPA, Fuse, Camel, and ActiveMQ. He has progressed from hands-on engineering roles to middleware architect and service delivery leadership at Red Hat and NBCUniversal, and now focuses on platform and product engineering at Kong. Brent brings deep expertise in enterprise integration, JBoss/GWT stacks, and field-facing technical delivery, making him adept at translating complex operational needs into reliable, supportable systems. His background includes both product and customer-engagement roles, so he pairs architectural rigor with practical deployment experience. A University of Illinois computer science graduate, he’s known for pragmatic problem solving across distributed systems and message-driven architectures. An interesting through-line in his career is frequent bridging of engineering and customer environments, giving him a rare mix of product insight and field-proven implementation skills.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (89)
api-management10
reverse-proxy10
chat10
serverless10
kong10
microservices10
cloud-native10
collaboration10
javascript10
data-protection10
ai10
kubernetes10
artificial-intelligence10
docker-distribution10
slack10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Kong/kong-gateway-performance-benchmark
May 2024 - Aug 2025
Framework for performance testing of kong gateway with K6
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR in 1 year 3 months
k6kongperformance-testingapi-gateaws
brentos/spring-boot-camel-rest
Jun 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:24 commits, 6 pushes, 3 branches in 8 months
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