Summary
Michael Kent is a Senior Manager in Site Reliability Engineering with 16 years of experience building and leading engineering teams to deliver reliable, high-throughput systems. Currently at Indeed in Austin, he has a strong track record scaling SRE and engineering organizations, previously driving productization and cross-functional initiatives at Khoros. Hands-on early in his career as a developer and build/automation lead, he blends deep technical experience in analytics, ETL, Kafka pipelines, and logging with a talent for mentoring and promoting engineers. He focuses on pragmatic, impact-driven projects that grow teams and improve operational resilience, while balancing life outside work with cooking and quiet weekends with family. An engineer who still cares about code quality and tooling, he often steps into technical challenges to stabilize systems during major transitions.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Texas Tech University
Frostburg State University
English