Kent Quirk
Staff Engineer, Collections at Honeycomb.io
Stonington, Connecticut, United States
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RockstarKent Quirk is a Staff Engineer with 12 years of experience who architects solutions for complicated problems with unusual constraints, currently focusing on Secure Tenancy and observability at Honeycomb.io. He primarily develops in Go (with some JavaScript/TypeScript) to deliver features that protect sensitive telemetry while preserving actionable insights. Based in Stonington, CT, he blends systems-level thinking with product delivery to make security and privacy first-class aspects of distributed observability. Known for tackling hard architectural trade-offs, he thrives on turning thorny requirements into pragmatic, auditable systems.
12 years of coding experience
French
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Github Skills (166)
programming-language10
proxy10
opentelemetry-collector10
opentelemetry10
backend10
editor10
golang10
electron10
typescript10
go10
logfile10
portal10
visual-studio-code10
microsoft10
ethereum10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
AchievementNetwork/vasco
Jun 2015 - Nov 2017
A golang-based discovery server -- provides load balancing, reverse proxy, and service discovery features
Contributions:60 releases, 48 PRs, 122 pushes in 2 years 5 months
golangload-balancingreverse-proxyservice-discovery
kentquirk/giraffe-quail
Nov 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:46 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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