- Full-time educator, kentcdodds.com1
Kent C. Dodds is a full-time educator who teaches people to build quality software through courses, blog posts, talks, workshops and podcasts. Kent's courses include Epic Product Engineer, Epic AI on building AI-powered applications with the Model Context Protocol, Epic Web on full-stack web apps, Epic React and Testing JavaScript. Kent's talks cover topics including JavaScript, React, testing and careers, with recent ones on AI agents and MCP, and Kent earlier represented PayPal on TC-39, the committee that standardizes JavaScript.12
At a glance
- Current role
- Full-time educator
- Company
- kentcdodds.com
- Sector
- Independent
- Work listed
- 3
- Honors
- 3
- Sources cited
- 5
- Profile reviewed
Career
Dodds's About page says Dodds set out early on to master JavaScript, writing it for employers and for open-source projects, and eventually represented PayPal on TC-39, the committee that standardizes the language. Dodds started speaking at meetups, went on to give more than a hundred talks on JavaScript, React, testing and careers, and moved into teaching after a talk was turned into a course on egghead.1
Teaching and writing
Dodds now works as a full-time educator. The current course line-up starts with Epic Product Engineer, on deciding what should be built before implementation, and continues with Epic AI, on building AI applications with the Model Context Protocol, Epic Web for full-stack web applications, Epic React and Testing JavaScript. Earlier courses cover the Remix web framework and an introduction to React for beginners.2
Dodds's recent talks focus on AI agents and MCP, including "Please Make Jarvis (so I don't have to)" in May 2025, "Interactive MCP with React Router" in October 2025, "How I Build Web Applications in 2026" in February 2026 and "Build a Free Agent" in April 2026.3
Open-source work
Dodds is listed first among the contributors to React Testing Library, credited for code, documentation and infrastructure, and the Testing Library documentation site carries a copyright notice for Dodds and contributors from 2018. Dodds's About page also lists recognition as a Google Developer Expert, a Microsoft MVP and a GitHub Star for open-source and community work.451
Work and contributions
Courses by Kent C. Dodds Show, channel or publication
Creates and teaches courses on product engineering, AI development with MCP, full-stack web, React and JavaScript testing.2
Blog and talks Show, channel or publication
Writes blog posts and gives talks on JavaScript, React, testing and careers, with recent talks on AI agents and MCP.1
React Testing Library Open-source code
Listed first among the project's contributors, credited for code, documentation and infrastructure; the Testing Library documentation site is copyrighted to Dodds and contributors.45
Timeline
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.
- Representative on the TC-39 committee, PayPal1
Honors and recognition
Where they work
- kentcdodds.com 1 person in the wiki
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