Brent Anderson
Founding Software Engineer at Knock
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolBrent Anderson is a founding software engineer with 14 years of experience building products and teams that scale from startups to Fortune 500 customers. Based in Minneapolis, he blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership—shipping consumer apps that have reached the App Store top 10 and designing event-driven architectures using Kafka, GraphQL, Elixir, TypeScript, Postgres, React Native, and Kubernetes. He’s co-founded product startups focused on family and education, led tech strategy for mid-market enterprises, and helped integrate complex SaaS ecosystems at Lambda School. Notably, some of his work has powered simulated space-flight experiences for K–12 students and he’s spoken publicly on tech policy, reflecting an uncommon mix of product, education, and policy engagement. Open to consulting, he prefers picking the right tool for the job and mentors teams to adopt pragmatic, production-ready practices.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
American Fork High SchoolMaster's degree Management Information Systems Business Intelligence, Master's degree Management Information Systems Business Intelligence at Brigham Young University
English, Czech
Stackoverflow
326reputation
15kreached
3answers
0questions
Github Skills (200)
knock10
jsonb10
d110
json10
oracle-db10
nodejs10
asdf10
oracle10
orm10
mysql10
snowflake10
graphql10
postgresql10
apollo10
javascript10
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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