Kent Sutherland
Co-Founder at Flexibits Inc.
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKent Sutherland is a seasoned Co-Founder and software engineer with 18 years of experience building reliable iOS and macOS tooling from Washington, D.C. He co-founded Flexibits and combines product leadership with deep hands-on expertise in mobile testing, automation, and backend stability. Kent has a strong open-source footprint, improving well-known projects like Sparkle and KIF to harden update and UI testing flows and to make test infrastructure like Bluepill more reliable. His work spans mobile UI behavior, database robustness, and developer tooling—often focused on edge-case fixes, better error reporting, and testability. Trained at RIT and Cornell (M.Eng), he brings academic rigor to practical engineering and a knack for quietly improving developer experience. Colleagues would note his preference for fixing brittle integrations and making failure modes more informative.
18 years of coding experience
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Rochester Institute of TechnologyMaster of Engineering, Computer Science, Master of Engineering, Computer Science at Cornell University
Github Skills (36)
accessibility10
unit-testing10
uitest10
objective-c10
ios10
sqlite10
api-design10
scripting10
testing10
bash10
ui-design10
cocoa10
xcode10
code-coverage10
web-framework10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
SlatherOrg/slather
Mar 2016 - Jan 2023
Generate test coverage reports for Xcode projects & hook it into CI.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:23 releases, 4 reviews, 157 commits in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Kent primarily contributed to improving the test coverage reporting for Xcode projects. Their work involved fixing issues related to finding test bundles, specifically when using schemes and binary basenames. They updated the project to work with different Xcode versions, including Xcode 7.3 and Xcode 9, adapting to changes in coverage file locations and build processes. Additionally, they enhanced test cases to use real data and added support for handling multiple binary files, along with the architecture configuration, for improved accuracy in coverage reporting.
test-coveragexcode
kif-framework/KIF
Aug 2013 - Oct 2019
Keep It Functional - An iOS Functional Testing Framework
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Kent primarily focused on improving the KIF (Keep It Functional) iOS testing framework. Their contributions included fixing bugs related to accessibility element identification and user interface interaction, such as addressing issues with date pickers and navigation bar elements. They also enhanced the robustness of the test framework by adding features like waiting for UI elements to load and providing more helpful error messages during test failures. The changes reflect improvements to how KIF interacts with the UI and manages test execution.
functional-testingios
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