Brent Yates
Summary
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RockstarBrent Yates is a technology executive and founder currently serving as CEO of swXtch.io, where he leads development of cloudSwXtch—an ultra-high-performance overlay network that brings multicast, protocol translation, ground-to-cloud bridging and path redundancy to major public clouds. He is a hands-on engineering leader with deep expertise in FPGA design and parallel processing, co-inventor on over 30 patents spanning video and data transmission, and has repeatedly taken complex hardware-software products from prototype to market. Brent also focuses on democratizing hardware acceleration—through efforts like Muunqi he enabled software teams to leverage accelerator performance without specialized FPGA skills. He combines high-level architecture and hands-on coding (C/C++, Go, Python), manages distributed engineering teams, and holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering with honors from Georgia Tech.
4 years of coding experience
Github Skills (14)
thread-safety9
stacktrace9
recycling8
logging8
pool8
thread8
logger8
cpp7
stl6
c-plus-plus5
performance-analysis5
cross-platform5
type-safe4
containers4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
swxtchio/protobuf
Jun 2022 - Feb 2025
Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
Contributions:9 pushes in 2 years 8 months
protocol-buffersgoogle-protocol-buffersinterchange-formatprotobufbuffers
swxtchio/swx-cloudSwXtch-AzureTemplates
Sep 2022 - Feb 2024
Templates to create a cloudSwXtch from the marketplace
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 4 months
marketplaceaws
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