William Kent
TPM at Snowflake
Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Kent is a technical program manager and founder with 12 years of experience building and shipping scalable cloud and systems software. He currently drives TPM work at Snowflake and previously led global cloud capacity planning and forecasting at Workday and Microsoft, reducing forecast cycles from weeks to hours for multi-billion dollar revenue plans. As founder of PPDS Consulting he combined product, cloud engineering and data services to cut quote cycle times and triple lead-driven revenue using AWS Lambda and Terraform. Hands-on across stacks, he has contributed to notable open-source projects from .NET runtime and macOS tooling to system-level work enabling Linux on Windows and low-level ReactOS crash reporting. Trained in engineering physics with an MBA, he blends deep systems-level coding and build automation expertise with strategic financial and product acumen. He’s as comfortable debugging build scripts and archive tasks as he is modeling long-range infrastructure investments.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S, Engineering Physics. Emphasis: Optical Electronics, Computer Science & Electrical Engineering, B.S, Engineering Physics. Emphasis: Optical Electronics, Computer Science & Electrical Engineering at University of ColoradoMaster of Business Administration (MBA), Entrepreneurship and Risk Management, Finance and Financial Management Services, Master of Business Administration (MBA), Entrepreneurship and Risk Management, Finance and Financial Management Services at University of Washington, Michael G. Foster School of Business
Spanish, Italian
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Github Skills (63)
xamarin-mac10
dependency-management10
nuget10
objective-c10
unit-testing10
c-language10
msbuild10
wp-api10
testing10
net10
dotnet10
c1110
ui-design10
linux-kernel10
winapi10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/cppwinrt
Oct 2019 - Feb 2020
C++/WinRT
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:14 commits, 7 PRs, 19 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:William primarily focused on build system and project configuration improvements within the repository. They fixed formatting issues, added a build script for NuGet package creation, and corrected the timing of a specific build target. Additionally, they addressed issues related to a license file and cppwinrtvisualizer compilation. These changes indicate a focus on automating or improving the build and packaging process of the project.
cppc-plus-pluswindowswinrt
reactos/reactos
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
A free Windows-compatible Operating System
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:54 reviews, 1 commit, 34 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:William primarily contributed to the DrWtsn32 crash reporter application, a core component of the ReactOS operating system. Their work involved significant improvements, including converting the application to `wWinMain()`, adding resource files, and enhancing crash reporting details. Furthermore, the user implemented functionality to write minidumps and integrated support for saving and restoring registry keys, enhancing the diagnostic capabilities of the system. This work demonstrates a focus on low-level system programming and debugging within the Windows environment.
driverskernelreactoswindowsgpl
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