Billy Ceskavich
Founding Software Engineer at Knock
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBilly Ceskavich is a founding software engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable backend systems for web services and native apps, currently guiding engineering at Knock. He has led cross-functional teams and shaped engineering processes in fast-growing environments, with senior roles at Shopify and Frame.io. His technical core spans Elixir, Ruby, JavaScript, and SQL, with deep experience across Rails, Phoenix/Ecto, and Node.js, plus Redis, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, and robust observability tooling. He has shipped high-traffic capabilities for Shop Pay/Shop App at Shopify and authored Rolodex, an open-source Elixir package. Based in New York, he holds an MS in Information Management from Syracuse University and combines hands-on engineering with strategic leadership to turn complex requirements into reliable, scalable systems.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Franklin High SchoolMaster of Science (MS) Information Management, Master of Science (MS) Information Management at Syracuse University
Github Skills (117)
knock10
social-media10
api9
scalable9
datepicker9
vs-code9
date-fns9
insert9
language-server9
functional-programming9
sliders9
elixir9
adapter9
launchdarkly9
sdk8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
bceskavich/dracula-at-night
Aug 2018 - Oct 2020
VS Code Theme
Contributions:10 releases, 18 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years 2 months
visual-studio-codevscodevscode-extensionvs-codedark-theme
bitslabsyr/stack
Sep 2014 - Oct 2015
The BITS Lab STACK tool for social media collection and analysis.
Contributions:256 commits, 4 PRs, 123 pushes in 1 year 1 month
bitspythonlabsocial-media
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