Michael Knapp

Professional Experience

October 2016 – March 2023

Lead Software Engineer

Lead a team of software engineers developing the Enterprise Realtime Machine Learning Model Service. Coached and mentored peers as needed.
Designed software system architectures to be highly available, fault tolerant, secure, performant, scalable, loosely coupled, and maintainable.
Developed docker images, helm charts, Argo applications, Kubernetes operators, and APIs.
Supported end user troubleshooting, and was on-call to recover services in any incident.
Wrote CICD pipelines to deploy resources with zero downtime.
Followed Agile/Kanban/scrum delivery life-cycles.
Integrated applications with many external services.
Worked in a strictly regulated environment.
Worked extensively with: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Argo, Golang, Bash, Python, Java, NewRelic, DataDog, Splunk, Istio, git, Seldon, Jenkins, PagerDuty, Lambda, DynamoDB, NiFi, and JIRA.

March 2015 - October 2016

Software Engineer

Developed Spark, Scalding, and Hadoop map/reduce algorithms (written in scala and java) to ingest and analyze a large distributed undirected graph.
Developed a DropWizard (Scala, Jetty, Jersey, Jackson, Yaml, Logback, Docker, Marathon, etc.) web service to query the graph.
Used git, maven, and Intellij daily.
Routinely wrote bash scripts and cron jobs.
Worked on an agile development cycle using JIRA.

April 2011 - March 2015

Software Engineer

Developed software to ingest, parse, persist, index, query, marshal, and retrieve community reports using Java, Solr, Accumulo, and many other technologies.
Developed restful web services to deliver reports, metadata, entities, and similar data to a web application using Jetty, JAXRS/Jersey, JAXB2, Spring, Maven, Java, etc.
Added web application features such as audit/access logs, performance tracking, improved domain model, abstract persistence services, spring aspects, and more.
Integrated code with JMS and a web based storage service similar to amazon’s S3.

July 2009 - April 2011

Junior Software Engineer

Programmed applications in java to report on website metrics and usage.
Developed automated Java scripts to test web pages and identify problems
Provided Lifecycle support by providing bug fixes and program enhancements
within Adobe Flex and Adobe Air in support of a mission tracking/reporting application
Regression tested software code and provided approval for deployment to production
Documented source code functionality using javadocs and UML diagrams
Utilized JMeter, JUnit, HTTPUnit, and manual testing to test web-pages

DevOps World 2018
Uber Conference (July 2016)
NGINX Advanced (2015)
NGINX Fundamentals (2015)
Real-Time Analytics With Apache Kafka (by edureka! 2015)
Introduction to Data Science by Washington State University (free online training, 2014)
Enterprise Integration with Spring (2014)
Mongo for Java Developers (free online training, 2014)
Oracle’s Mysql 5.6 Developer Training (2014)
Cloudera Introduction to Data Science: Building Recommendation Engines (2013)
Intertech Hibernate Training (2013)
Spring Core (2012)
Cloudera Hadoop Core Training (2011)