Kyle Kent

Software Engineer

Experience

IKEA North America Services, LLC

06/2022 - Present

Software Engineer

  • Partnered with product owners from ideation through delivery, assessing feasibility, shaping solutions, and owning technical design, implementation, testing, and Optimizely A/B experiments, including metric selection and result analysis
  • Supported global Buy Experience and Navigation delivery across 11 repositories and 144 country-and-locale deployments, contributing to code reviews, CI/CD and cloud infrastructure, multiple weekly releases, and both production and on-call support for multiple Tier 1 (SL1) services
  • Diagnosed and fixed geolocation reliability and data-integrity issues, including an 11% reduction so far in Google Geocoding API cost, a customer-visible validation regression affecting 27 markets, and cross-user SSR state leakage
  • Co-owned the transition of the Product Information Page’s availability and services to a DWF fragment under the Buy Experience team; built and operated server- and client-rendered microfrontends on IKEA’s edge-rendering platform (EVS), while leading localized translation architecture and implementation, SSR availability loading, and CI/CD work for the fragments
  • Managed edge caching, request context, and production/test deployments for independently delivered fragments, resolving cross-fragment state, SSR, and pub/sub integration issues across Cloudflare Workers
  • Drove development of Vaka, a greenfield, real-time observability platform built with Fastly, DWF, Preact, GCP, and MongoDB that enhanced error resolution in customer-facing online shopping systems, significantly reducing mean time to recovery (MTTR)
  • Co-designed a monorepo migration CLI and standardized monorepo CI/CD, personally drove migration of the Buy and Navigation teams' repositories
  • Built AI-assisted developer tooling and agentic workflows, including Jira-to-Copilot automation, intent layer creation and automated maintenance, and tracking merged but unreleased changes across owned repositories
  • Resolved a critical security vulnerability in the gift registry flow, safeguarding sensitive customer address information
  • Founded and led a company-wide DevOps Guild standardizing workflows and training across GCP, Terraform, and GitHub Actions

Proconex

02/2021 - 06/2022

Software Engineer

  • Architected and developed Angular components such as a dynamic reporting table, interactive OPC device parameter navigation, and editable data tables with conditional logic
  • Designed a configurable alert infrastructure integrating SQL stored procedures, Angular dialogs, and web API hooks to automate notifications
  • Optimized SQL stored procedures, significantly reducing query latency and improving overall response times

BrickSimple, LLC

02/2020 - 01/2021

Software Engineer

  • Developed a HIPAA-compliant, NLP healthcare chat app designed to answer patients' post-surgery care questions. Built using Google Dialogflow with a React/Redux frontend and Django backend
  • Worked directly with clients to gather requirements, architect solutions, implement designs, beta-tested with users, and deliver tailored software applications

His Mansion Ministries

09/2018 - 10/2019

Servant Leader

  • Led and mentored residents in a structured recovery program, fostering accountability, emotional resilience, and teamwork through daily guidance, conflict resolution, and collaborative problem-solving

First Trust Portfolios

08/2016 - 09/2018

Software Engineer

  • Modernized legacy financial applications by refactoring outdated architecture and improving code readability and maintainability
  • Created SQL tools for database optimization, enhancing data integrity and boosting query performance

Open Source Projects

Portfolio ∙ https://kylekent.dev

05/2025 - Present

Production-grade Next.js portfolio and resume application with a typed component system, responsive desktop/mobile UI, dark mode, automated browser testing, and CI/CD reading my resume data from a separately hosted public JSON.

Next.js
Tailwind CSS
Motion
TypeScript
Cloudflare

Monorepo Migration CLI

CLI and CI/CD pattern for migrating repositories into either a new or existing monorepo, preserving Git history and merging workflows and other GitHub root configurations.

TypeScript
Node.js
git-filter-repo
GitHub CLI

Resume Repository

JSON Resume data layer and GitHub Actions workflow that generates, validates, and publishes a curated public resume in JSON format.

JSON Resume
GitHub Actions
Node.js
TypeScript

Education

Wheaton College

09/2013 - 05/2017
Wheaton, IL

BS Computer Science, Economics