Kent Ou

Kent Ou

Kent Ou

Software Engineer at Slack

I am a full stack software engineer! My experience includes working with frameworks such as React on the front end, and Hacklang, Python, Node on the backend. I have a passion for building innovative, responsive web apps and love to create solutions for challenging business problems

Experience

SlackSoftware Engineer

2025 — Now

MetaSoftware Engineer

2017 — 2025

2017 — 2025

Menlo Park, CA

Monetization - internal tools

UC Berkeley ExtensionTeaching Assistant

2017 — 2018

2017 — 2018

San Francisco Bay Area

Teaching Assistant for Web Development Bootcamp

Retronyms IncSoftware Engineer

2017 — 2017

2017 — 2017

San Francisco, CA

Stone CobraSoftware Engineer

2016 — 2016

2016 — 2016

Roseville, CA

Complete Oracle Knowledge upgrade projects successfully for two large clients

Developed a POC for a client using Oracle Knowledge Advanced, a cloud based knowledge application

Supported clients through UAT process to test and debug Oracle Knowledge application

Configured NGINX with Apache Tomcat servers to load balance between 12 production instances

Implemented SSO during an upgrade project Tomcat web application using SAML 2.0

Education

University of California, Davis

BS

2007 — 2011

Hack Reactor

Computer Software Engineering

2015 — 2015

freeCodeCamp

Full Stack Web Development Certification

2015 — 2016