Brent Anderson
Founding Software Engineer at Knock
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolBrent A is a founding software engineer with 13 years of experience spanning startups, education tech, and product-focused engineering. Currently leading Knock, he builds innovative product notification systems while aiming to reshape attention economy dynamics. At Lambda School, he engineered an event-driven architecture on Apache Kafka/Confluent Cloud and migrated teams to TypeScript/React/GraphQL and Postgres, integrating with Salesforce and Canvas. He co-founded Coriaria and led multiple product initiatives across web, mobile, and analytics, reflecting a pattern of turning ambitious ideas into scalable solutions. Based in Minneapolis, he holds a BS in Information Systems and an MIS/BI master's from BYU, pairing technical depth with business intelligence insight. Outside code, he balances leadership with family and community commitments, bringing a pragmatic, hands-on approach to building software that matters.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
American Fork High SchoolBachelors, Information Systems, Bachelors, Information Systems at Brigham Young University
English, Czech
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Github Skills (200)
knock10
jsonb10
postgres10
mssql-server10
d110
json10
oracle-db10
nodejs10
asdf10
oracle10
orm10
node-js10
mysql10
sqlite310
snowflake10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
farpoint/meteor-winston-client
Jul 2013 - Aug 2014
Contributions:13 commits, 1 comment in 1 year 1 month
twitchstreamswinston
brentjanderson/meteor-buzz
May 2013 - Nov 2015
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 2 years 6 months
javascript-audiometeormeteor-packagebuzzjavascript
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