Kurtis Van Gent

Kurtis Van Gent

Kurtis Van Gent

Senior Staff Software Engineer · Google

Bio

Kurtis Van Gent is a MCP Core Maintainer and leads the MCP Transports Working Group. By day, he leads AI Ecosystems + Integrations for Google Cloud Databases and helped create MCP Toolbox for Databases.

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Kurtis Van Gent leads AI Ecosystems for Google Cloud Databases and is an MCP Core Maintainer (leading the Transports Working Group) who helped create the MCP Toolbox for Databases, an open-source MCP server with 15k+ GitHub stars supporting 40+ enterprise databases. His recent work on stateless MCP transports, tool bloat in agents, and the concept of "Agent Experience" as the new DevX offers both deep protocol-level insights and practical engineering guidance for anyone building production-grade agentic data systems.

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