Kent Oyer
Founder at MX Guardian
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKent Oyer is a founder and seasoned systems engineer with 11 years of professional experience building dynamic web and email services from the ground up. Based in Chicago, he runs MX Guardian, a hosted email security service, and previously led a full-service IT firm delivering network design, hosting, and custom servers for SMBs. Technically fluent in Perl, PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, Windows and Linux server administration, and TCP/IP networking, he specializes in email infrastructure—Microsoft Exchange, Postfix, and SMTP—and has deep practical expertise parsing and debugging complex mail formats. An active contributor to the php-mime-mail-parser project, he has added features, unit tests, and fixes for tricky content-transfer-encoding issues, showing a knack for robust backend engineering and QA. He also brings hands-on teaching and enterprise IT management experience, having taught networking courses and overseen multi-site systems and custom line-of-business software. Quietly pragmatic, Kent combines entrepreneurial drive with low-level protocol knowledge that helps him solve problems others relegate to third-party tools.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, MIS, BS, MIS at Goshen CollegeAssociate of Arts (A.A.), Liberal Arts, Associate of Arts (A.A.), Liberal Arts at Hesston CollegePurdue University
Github Skills (10)
e-mail10
parserator10
php10
parser10
sendmail10
send-email10
phpunit10
unit-testing9
exception-handling8
code-formatting7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
php-mime-mail-parser/php-mime-mail-parser
Aug 2016 - Mar 2018
A fully tested email parser for PHP 8.0+ (mailparse extension wrapper).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:21 commits, 5 PRs, 8 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Kent significantly contributed to the email parsing library, implementing new features and improving existing ones. Their work involved adding functionality to retrieve raw headers and incorporating unit tests. They also addressed a specific issue related to content transfer encoding, demonstrating their ability to debug and fix complex parsing issues. Furthermore, the user refactored existing code, cleaned up formatting, and added Exception tests.
mailparse-extensionmailphpemailmailparser
mxguardian/Mail-SpamAssassin-Plugin-PDFInfo2
Jan 2023 - Mar 2025
SpamAssassin plugin for parsing PDF attachments
Contributions:11 releases, 4 PRs, 58 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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