Kent Schroeder
Software Developer at SIL International
Waxhaw, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolKent Schroeder is a software developer with over three decades of hands-on experience focused on building linguistic and language technology applications to support language development and translation work. Based in Waxhaw, North Carolina, he has held progressive roles at SIL International and Wycliffe Bible Translators, including Language Technology Team Leader and long-standing software developer positions. Kent blends practical engineering with domain expertise in linguistics, delivering tools that help field linguists and translators work more effectively. His career reflects sustained commitment to mission-driven software, often operating at the intersection of language science and practical tooling rather than mainstream consumer tech. With an MS from Purdue and deep institutional knowledge, he brings rare historical perspective and continuity to projects that evolve over decades. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that balance technical robustness with the real-world constraints of language development work.
11 years of coding experience
MS, MS at Purdue University
Github Skills (10)
keyboard-events10
ime9
unicode9
keyboard9
keyman6
dictionary6
forge6
javascript4
keyman-developer4
security1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sillsdev/GenLib
Apr 2015 - Oct 2018
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
kentschroeder/keyboards
Sep 2021 - Oct 2021
Open Source Keyman keyboards
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
keyboardskeymanimekeyboard-eventskeyboard
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