Kent Utterback
Software Engineering Consultant at Stride
Columbus, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolKent Utterback is a pragmatic software engineering consultant and technical lead based in Portland, Oregon, with a decade of experience delivering cloud-native services and cross-functional products. Comfortable across Rust, Go, TypeScript/JavaScript, and C#, he has moved between hands-on engineering and team leadership roles at organizations like Nike, CUNA Mutual Group, and startups, shipping containerized microservices, APIs, and frontend modernizations. Kent combines practical DevOps know-how—CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, GCP/AWS—with a history of mentoring teams, running scrum, and shaping design and documentation. He excels at tackling varied development problems and translating legacy systems into maintainable, scalable architectures, a skill rooted in his early mechanical engineering training and broad full‑stack background.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's degree Mechanical Engineering at Ohio Northern University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (67)
github10
api-client10
testing10
http-client10
automation10
rest-api10
javascript10
html10
developer-tools10
api-testing10
git10
css10
ide10
graphql-client10
postman10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Kenttleton/JS-library
Nov 2016 - Apr 2019
Javascript Library of useful methods for doing math and data manipulation.
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
javascript
Kenttleton/genericcss
Nov 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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