Libby Kent

Vice President Sr Lead Software Engineer at Hacker School

New York, New York, United States
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Libby Kent is a seasoned software leader with 11 years of experience, currently serving as Vice President and Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase in New York. She combines deep backend expertise in Scala and Java with front-end skills in JavaScript and CSS, and strong SQL and Linux/Unix fluency to deliver robust, production-grade systems. Her career spans roles from early engineering positions at AOL and Universal Instruments to senior architect and leadership roles, showing a consistent progression into technical strategy and team leadership. Libby has balanced hands-on development with architectural responsibilities at America Media and mentorship through Hacker School, indicating a commitment to developer education and talent growth. Known for pragmatic problem-solving in large enterprises, she brings a practical mix of legacy system experience and modern JVM-based tooling to complex financial and media platforms.
code11 years of coding experience
job6 years of employment as a software developer
bookSUNY Oneonta
bookCoursera
languagesEnglish, Spanish
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Github Skills (25)

go-modules10
transaction10
consensus10
code-signing10
scripting10
bash10
ether10
signing10
proto10
script10
go10
ethereum10
blockchain10
sh10
g10

Programming languages (12)

JavaShellCSSRustSolidityScalaJavaScriptGo

Github contributions (5)

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libby/qubernetes

Mar 2020 - Feb 2021

Quorum on Kubernetes.
Contributions:113 pushes, 131 branches in 10 months
dockerk8skubernetesquorumkubernetes-cluster
libby/quorum

Aug 2018 - Feb 2021

A permissioned implementation of Ethereum supporting data privacy
Contributions:33 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 6 months
ethereumdata-privacysupportingprivacy
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Libby Kent - Vice President Sr Lead Software Engineer at Hacker School