Joy Kent
Member Of Technical Staff at Cerebras Systems
Belmont, California, United States
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Top SchoolJoy Kent is a seasoned software engineer with eight years of industry experience, currently contributing as a Member of Technical Staff at Cerebras Systems in Belmont, California. Her career spans foundational roles at Autonomic, Datrium, and Greenplum/EMC, where she focused on building reliable, high-performance infrastructure and storage software. Joy brings a strong academic grounding from the University of Science and Technology of China and advanced study at UC Davis, pairing rigorous theory with production-driven engineering. She has navigated both startup and large-enterprise environments, shipping complex systems that demand scalability and low-latency operation. Known for quietly bridging research-quality thinking with pragmatic implementation, she thrives on solving hard systems problems rather than seeking the spotlight. Based in the Bay Area, she blends deep technical craftsmanship with a steady record of delivering durable engineering outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University of California, DavisBachelor of Science (BS), computer science, Bachelor of Science (BS), computer science at University of Science and Technology of China
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Github Skills (10)
druid10
database9
apache-druid9
dataplane9
kubernetes-networking6
cni6
kubernetes6
xml6
android6
java6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
autonomic-ai/incubator-druid
Nov 2018 - Sep 2020
Apache Druid (Incubating) - Column oriented distributed data store ideal for powering interactive applications
Contributions:15 PRs, 33 pushes, 20 branches in 1 year 10 months
incubatingidealdata-storeapachebig-data
autonomic-ai/kafka-connect-elasticsearch
Nov 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:8 comments in 1 month
kafka-connectkafkaconnectorelasticsearch
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