Kent English

Kent English has over 13 years of work experience in the technology industry. Kent began their career in 2007 as a Full Stack Web Developer for BrainBoost Education/Remix Media, where they designed and built web applications on the LAMP stack. In 2013, they joined CrowdRiff as a Senior Developer, developing backend systems in Scala, Akka, Go and Python for processing high volumes of social media data. Kent also used Go, Node. js, AngularJS, React and D3. In 2015, they took on roles as a Senior Software Architect, AI Engineer and Senior Software Engineer at Uncharted Software, as well as a Data Visualization Consultant at Gallop. In 2020, they joined Receptiviti as VP of Technology and Director of Engineering.

Kent English obtained a Bachelor of Science Honours (BScH) in Mathematics and Physics from Queen's University. Kent also has a number of certifications, including a Mathematics for Machine Learning Specialization from Coursera obtained in February 2020, a Data Visualization certification from Coursera Verified Certificates obtained in August 2015, a Scalable Machine Learning certification from edX obtained in August 2015, an Introduction to Functional Programming certification from edX obtained in December 2014, a Data Analysis and Statistical Inference certification from Coursera obtained in November 2014, a Programming Languages certification from Coursera obtained in December 2013, a Web Intelligence and Big Data certification from Coursera obtained in December 2013, a Functional Programming Principles in Scala certification from Coursera obtained in November 2012, a Computing for Data Analysis certification from Coursera obtained in October 2012, a Machine Learning certification from Coursera obtained in October 2012, an Introduction to Artificial Intelligence certification from Udacity obtained in December 2011, and a Japanese Language Proficiency Level 2 certification obtained in December 2005.