Coleby Kent
Chief Executive Officer at Reforgix
Reno, Nevada, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColeby Kent is a software engineer and CEO with a decade of experience building full-stack systems and leading small teams across the Bay Area and Reno. He combines hands-on expertise in TypeScript, Node.js, React, Ruby on Rails, Kafka, and PostgreSQL with practical DevOps skills in Docker, AWS, and Redis to ship reliable, data-driven services. As founder/CEO of Reforgix and a past senior engineer atFunding Circle and Centered, he moves comfortably between product-facing UI work and backend distributed systems. A fast learner who enjoys puzzles, he deliberately explores new languages and tools—Golang, Python, Java, and message queues feature in his toolkit—to pick the best solution per problem. Known for eagerly demoing prototypes to get early feedback, he blends entrepreneurial curiosity with production-grade engineering. His GitHub motto—Listen, Improve, Learn—captures a pragmatic, iterative approach to building software and teams.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Business Administration, Business Administration at Los Medanos College
English
Github Skills (9)
espn5
explore5
react4
facebook4
python4
javascript3
pixel3
mobile-first2
automation2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
coleby210/power-minute
Feb 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:132 commits in 9 months
reactjavascriptlongminuteworkout
ChampionBuckerty/go-launcher
Jan 2023 - May 2023
Contributions:3 releases, 6 PRs, 55 pushes in 4 months
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