---
title: "Kent C. Dodds"
category: "people"
role: "Software Engineer and Educator"
company: "EpicProduct.engineer"
linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/kentcdodds/"
twitter: "https://x.com/kentcdodds"
website: "https://kentcdodds.com"
blog: "https://kentcdodds.com/blog"
sourceLabels: ["Official speaker roster", "Official conference schedule"]
---
# Kent C. Dodds

## Profile
Software Engineer and Educator at [[epicproduct-engineer|EpicProduct.engineer]].

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kentcdodds/)
- [X / Twitter](https://x.com/kentcdodds)
- [Website](https://kentcdodds.com)
- [Blog](https://kentcdodds.com/blog)

## Biography
Kent C. Dodds is a world renowned web development educator and engineer. He's actively involved in the open source community. He is the creator of [[epicproduct-engineer|EpicProduct.engineer]], EpicWeb.dev, EpicAI.pro, EpicReact.dev, and TestingJavaScript.com. He's a Microsoft MVP, GitHub Star, instructor on egghead.io and Frontend Masters, live streamer, and podcaster. Kent is married and the father of six kids and he lives in Utah.

## Conference Sessions
- [[2026-06-29-kent-c-dodds-build-the-right-thing-product-engineering-for-software-developers-part-1]] — Build the Right Thing: Product Engineering for Software Developers (Part 1) (2026-06-29, 12:10pm-1:10pm)
- [[2026-06-29-kent-c-dodds-build-the-right-thing-product-engineering-for-software-developers-part-2]] — Build the Right Thing: Product Engineering for Software Developers — Part 2 (2026-06-29, 1:15pm-2:15pm)

## Evidence Graph
This evidence graph summarizes how this person appears across the conference source graph: scheduled sessions, linked videos, transcripts, and slide-derived evidence.

### Linked Sessions
- [[2026-06-29-kent-c-dodds-build-the-right-thing-product-engineering-for-software-developers-part-1|Build the Right Thing: Product Engineering for Software Developers (Part 1)]]
- [[2026-06-29-kent-c-dodds-build-the-right-thing-product-engineering-for-software-developers-part-2|Build the Right Thing: Product Engineering for Software Developers — Part 2]]

### Media Signals
- `youtube-EyZiAp0pelw` — 5 slide-derived text signals
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-EyZiAp0pelw`: database, jarvis, compiled, brought, signatures, showed, related, news.
- Evidence links for `youtube-EyZiAp0pelw`: [[youtube-EyZiAp0pelw]], [[youtube-EyZiAp0pelw-slides]], [[youtube-EyZiAp0pelw-dense-slides]], [[youtube-EyZiAp0pelw-reconstructed-slides]]