About

Hello there! I’m Brent and I wear many hats. I’m husband to Rebekah, father of our 4 daughters & 2 sons.

By day I am a Software Engineer, and have been since 2015 when, after graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, I spent over 4 years at RT Creative Group (dba Igniter Media) building an online marketplace for videos and graphics.

When our third child was born in 2019, we decided to move closer to family, which led me to search for a remote role. That same year I was honored to join TaxJar, a company that had been fully remote since the start. In 2021, TaxJar was acquired by my current employer Stripe.

While working at Igniter & TaxJar, my primary focus was in Ruby on Rails, working with various flavors of SQL, with Sidekiq for background jobs, and with some limited exposure to React & Vue.

Since joining Stripe, I’ve primarily been working in non-Rails Ruby (with typing via Sorbet) and MongoDB.

In our free time, my family & I enjoy hiking in nature, traveling, and have recently started a farming venture on the side. We tend to a drove of Meishan pigs, ducks, turkeys, geese, and more chickens than I can count. The Meishan are a rare heritage breed that, until 2024, were classified as critically endangered by the livestock conservancy. They also produce what some consider to be one of the highest quality porks available. We're exploring ways to help repopulate this rare breed while also building it into a family business, and providing food for our table.

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