Kent Salcedo
CTO & Founding Engineer at /'gīdens/
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
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Top SchoolKent Salcedo is a builder-first CTO and founding engineer with a decade of hands-on experience taking products from 0→1, shipping pragmatic AI, automation, and modern web solutions. He thrives in the “messy middle” of unclear requirements, evolving teams, and real customer constraints, prioritizing understandable systems and fast-moving teams that can sleep at night. Kent has led engineering across startups and accelerator-backed ventures, most recently steering GTM and product at /'gīdens/, an AI-enabled advisory platform for small businesses. Technically fluent across full-stack JavaScript, databases, and cloud infra, he balances strategic direction with code-level execution and practical trade-offs that compound over time. Based in Honolulu, he brings long-term thinking and sustainability-minded discipline to rapid product cycles — a full-stack dad who values consistent delivery over performative hustle.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development Full Stack Web Development, Web Development Full Stack Web Development at DevLeagueBachelor's Degree Finance, Bachelor's Degree Finance at University of Hawaii at Manoa
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Github Skills (17)
accessibility10
javascript10
theming10
grommet10
modularity10
responsiveness10
tidy10
react10
monster7
expressjs6
mongodb5
phaser5
nodejs4
webpack4
angular4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kentsalcedo/yes-we-canban
Feb 2016 - Jul 2020
Kanban app created in express and angular
Contributions:2 PRs, 33 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 6 months
expressjsjavascriptexpressnodejsangular
kentsalcedo/practice-kanban
Jan 2018 - Nov 2019
Example of a kanban made with plain JavaScript
Contributions:12 PRs, 12 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 10 months
plain-javascriptjavascriptnodejsplaintypescript
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