Stephen Kent
Senior Software Engineer at Flex
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolStephen Kent is a Senior Software Engineer based in Seattle with 13 years of experience building scalable backend systems and developer tooling across startups and large enterprises. He has a track record of delivering measurable impact—modernizing payment and revenue systems that generated substantial ARR at Dropbox and cutting test/build times and service build latency company-wide at Zillow and Anomalo. Stephen excels at designing consistent, extensible APIs, deployment and state management tooling, and LLM-enabled data insights for logistics, while also improving developer velocity through automation. He has led technical interview design and practical coding exercises to improve hiring outcomes, a recurring theme across roles. Comfortable both architecting systems and shipping hands-on features, he blends product-focused delivery with operational rigor. His early work accelerating scientific compute on unconventional hardware hints at a persistent curiosity for performance and atypical problem-solving.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science Engineering at University of Michigan
Github Skills (200)
archiving10
python10
saml10
api-client10
firmware10
nfc10
yubikey10
authentication10
autocomplete10
language-server-protocol10
vim-plugin10
coupon10
jmap10
security10
lua10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
smkent/provisioning
Aug 2016 - Feb 2026
smkent's machine configuration
Contributions:49 PRs, 129 pushes, 53 branches in 9 years 7 months
ansiblelinuxlinux-mintubuntu
smkent/jmapc
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
✉️ ⚒️ A JMAP client library for Python. https://jmap.io
Contributions:36 releases, 1 review, 354 commits in 9 months
jmap-clientpythonapiapi-clientevents
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