Brent Young
Director Of Engineering at Prophia, Inc.
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrent Young is a Director of Engineering with 11 years of experience designing and shipping client-server and 3-tier distributed systems, currently leading engineering at Prophia. He blends hands-on development with data-driven decision making, driving large-scale front-end migrations and building scaffolding that accelerates team productivity. Known for advocating clean, readable code, he emphasizes platform understanding and cross-team collaboration to reduce technical debt. Brent’s background spans high-velocity roles at Booking.com, Yapta, Leaseable, and growing startups, giving him both enterprise and startup sensibilities. Unusually for an engineering leader, he pairs a Computer Science degree with an earlier BA in Psychology, which informs his pragmatic approach to team dynamics and developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Senior - Post Bac., Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Senior - Post Bac. at University of WashingtonComputer Science, 3.8, Computer Science, 3.8 at Shoreline Community College
Spanish
Github Skills (10)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
leachad/buuteeq-ponyhax
Apr 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:69 commits, 85 pushes in 2 months
youngbw/youngbw.github.io
Jun 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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