Chris Kent
Senior Platform Architect
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolChris Kent is a Senior Platform Architect with a decade of experience designing and delivering enterprise collaboration and platform solutions, currently working at Takeda after a long tenure leading Office 365 and enterprise architecture at DMI. He blends deep SharePoint/SPFx expertise and front-end UI craft with practical tooling and documentation skills, evidenced by sustained contributions to prominent PnP repositories and improvements to developer docs and UX for List Formatting and property controls. Chris has a history of driving measurable cost and efficiency gains—portfolio wins include large intranet rollouts, workflow consolidations, and automation that cut manual work and consultant spend. Comfortable across full-stack development, architecture, and platform operations, he pairs hands-on coding (TypeScript, React, jQuery, PnPJS) with strategic delivery for large organizations. Located in Knoxville, TN, he brings both engineering rigor and a knack for restoring and creating practical tools that help teams ship faster.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Indiana University-Purdue University at IndianapolisHonors Diploma, Honors Diploma at Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and HumanitiesBachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Arts at Johnson University
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Github Skills (47)
json10
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javascript10
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jquery10
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sharepoint-framework10
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typescript10
windows-phone10
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pnp/List-Formatting
Jan 2018 - Dec 2022
List Formatting Samples for use in SharePoint and Microsoft Lists
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Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:636 commits, 248 PRs, 254 pushes in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Chris contributed to the list formatting repository by primarily focusing on documentation and UI/UX improvements related to the documentation site. They set up the initial MKDocs configuration and made adjustments to the CSS for better presentation of the documentation. They also added a sample PowerShell script and restored an HTML formatter tool, indicating a focus on tooling and content creation.
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pnp/sp-dev-solutions
Jan 2018 - Sep 2018
Repository for SharePoint development reusable solutions
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:97 commits, 7 PRs, 54 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Chris contributed significantly to the development of reusable solutions for SharePoint development. They added and modified numerous column formatter solutions, writing code in TypeScript and integrating the PnPJS library. Their work included implementing new wizards, adjusting the UI, and ensuring proper localization, thus demonstrating a strong focus on front-end and potentially back-end SharePoint development.
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