Stephen Kent
Senior Software Engineer at Flex
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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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)
firmware10
autocomplete10
vim10
linter10
client-library10
document-management10
api10
rebuild10
optical-character-recognition10
single-sign-on10
infrared10
openid-connect10
portal10
traefik10
ctags10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
smkent/homelab
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
🏠🧪 Self-hosted apps and deployments
Contributions:81 commits, 90 PRs, 57 pushes in 2 months
nginxpcfhomelabtaigahomelab-setup
smkent/3d
Nov 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:156 PRs, 91 pushes, 158 branches in 1 year 1 month
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