Brent Yates
Chief Executive Officer at swXtch.io
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrent Yates is a serial tech founder and engineering executive with 14 years of documented experience leading high-performance networking and video delivery innovations, currently serving as CEO of swXtch.io (an IEX group company). He architects and ships cloudSwXtch, a low-latency overlay network that brings multicast, protocol translation, and path redundancy to major public clouds, translating deep FPGA and parallel-processing expertise into cloud-native products. A co-inventor on 30+ patents, Brent combines hands-on C/C++/Go/Python development with hardware design fluency to optimize video and CDN systems from data center to edge. He’s led multidisciplinary and offshore teams through product cycles—from prototype FPGA designs to commercial deployments—and has a track record of turning research-grade acceleration techniques into market-ready solutions. Based in Atlanta, Brent pairs startup grit with formal EE training from Georgia Tech and a knack for making specialized hardware capabilities accessible to software teams.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (27)
electron10
typescript10
editor9
microsoft9
visual-studio-code9
vscode-extension9
visual-studio9
logrus9
vscode9
logging9
logger8
pluggable8
buildroot7
zap7
protobuf7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
byates/altera_sld_hub_driver
Nov 2015 - Mar 2020
Contributions:1 release, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
byates/jbyconfig
Dec 2019 - Oct 2023
Contributions:64 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
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