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 resilient backend systems for web and native apps, currently leading engineering at Knock. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Elixir, Ruby, JavaScript, and SQL with senior experience shaping team practices, on-call playbooks, and high-traffic readiness (including 4x peak load planning at Shopify). Billy has repeatedly taken ownership of underinvested services—rewriting membership and permissions systems, scaling a pub/sub pipeline to handle thousands of events per second, and executing zero-downtime platform migrations. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs pragmatic tooling choices (Redis, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Datadog) with open-source contributions like an Elixir OpenAPI generator used in production. Based in New York, he brings a track record of mentoring engineers and turning complex reliability problems into instrumented, maintainable systems.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Information Management, Master of Science (MS) Information Management at Syracuse University
Github Skills (109)
knock10
social-media10
api9
scalable9
datepicker9
date-fns9
insert9
language-server9
functional-programming9
sliders9
elixir9
adapter9
launchdarkly9
sdk8
javascript8
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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