Brian Knapp
Principal Software Engineer I at Stitch Fix
Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Knapp is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building and scaling production Rails applications and architectures, currently driving platform work at Stitch Fix after architect and leadership roles at Selfbook. He brings deep expertise in Ruby on Rails, performance optimization, and systems design from a mix of startup and enterprise environments, including long tenure at Procore and co-founding Retro Mocha. Comfortable both leading teams and shipping code, Brian has moved between hands-on architecture and people-facing onboarding/director responsibilities, showing an unusual blend of technical depth and operational leadership. Based in Lincoln, Nebraska, he favors pragmatic, performance-first solutions and has a track record of improving throughput and reliability in high‑traffic systems.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Github Skills (18)
twitter10
architecture10
mongoid7
activerecord6
ruby-on-rails6
ruby6
migration6
sharding5
rails5
postgresql4
data-dump4
database4
dump3
benchmark2
address-book1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
RetroMocha/obvious
Dec 2012 - Feb 2022
Obvious is a clean architecture.
Contributions:2 reviews, 41 commits, 14 PRs in 9 years 2 months
architectureclean
RetroMocha/obvious_status
Dec 2012 - Feb 2022
An Obvious Architecture implementation of a twitter style status update app.
Contributions:94 commits, 2 PRs, 30 pushes in 9 years 3 months
updatearchitecturestatustwitter
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