Kent Hu
Staff Software Engineer at Amplitude
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKent Hu is a Staff Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with a decade-plus of full-stack experience spanning startups and product companies. He champions empathy-driven engineering—prioritizing user needs and future maintainers through readable, testable code and clear documentation. Kent has progressed from hands-on development to technical leadership roles at Fluxx and Amplitude, where he focuses on solving hard problems, building developer tools, and improving processes. He emphasizes early questioning to build strong mental models of systems, which he credits for more reliable long-term outcomes. Trained in EECS at UC Berkeley, he blends systems thinking with pragmatic collaboration to deliver durable web applications.
3 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (17)
amplitude9
slack-bot7
websocket7
fetch7
websocket-client7
slack6
python6
redux6
javascript6
middleware6
aiohttp5
react5
nodejs5
typescript5
asyncio4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (4)
amplitude/redux-query
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
A library for managing network state in Redux
Contributions:1 review in 1 day
reactstate-managementredux-queryamplituderedux
slackapi/bolt-js
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
A framework to build Slack apps using JavaScript
Contributions:1 comment, 2 issues in 1 day
websocketsjavascriptframeworkwebsocketslack
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