Kurtis Van Gent
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKurtis Van Gent is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in Boulder with eight years of experience leading cross-functional engineering efforts in cloud-native developer experience and modern application development. He has driven developer tooling, CI/CD, and connectivity for major Google Cloud database products (Cloud SQL, AlloyDB) and led initiatives that span client libraries, API design, security, and distributed systems. His background includes platform work at Netflix enabling service discovery and mesh adoption, and deep open-source contributions to high-profile GoogleCloud projects—improving build/test infrastructure and auth flows for google-cloud-python and cloud-sql-proxy. Known for bridging developer productivity with production reliability, he pairs hands-on DevOps and backend coding with team leadership and cross-org coordination. A former bioinformatics automation lead, he brings a pragmatic systems view shaped by building reproducible, containerized workflows early in his career.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Iowa State UniversityMaster of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at Graduate School, University of South DakotaBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of South Dakota
Github Skills (30)
google-cloud-platform10
docker10
android-sample10
pytest10
python10
testing10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
spanner10
gcp10
google-cloud-spanner10
go10
sql10
google-cloud10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-sql-proxy
Nov 2018 - Jan 2023
A utility for connecting securely to your Cloud SQL instances
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 releases, 461 reviews, 64 commits in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Kurtis contributed to the Cloud SQL Proxy project by fixing credential flows related to authentication, specifically addressing issues in `cloud_sql_proxy.go`. They implemented initial Kokoro configuration, setting up automated testing and build processes. Further contributions included setting custom socket addresses, updating dependencies, and correcting the base URL for API calls. They also refactored tests into explicit lint checks.
instancescloud-sql-proxycloud-sqlgoogle-cloud-platformsql
GoogleCloudPlatform/golang-samples
Dec 2017 - Jul 2022
Sample apps and code written for Google Cloud in the Go programming language.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 9 commits, 8 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Kurtis contributed to the Google Cloud samples in Go, focusing on integrating and updating code samples for various Google Cloud services. The commits include updates to region tags, the addition of KMS integration samples for Cloud Storage and Firestore error handling. These contributions demonstrate expertise in back-end development with cloud services.
golangappenginesample-appsgoogle-cloudgoogle-appengine
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