Brian Knight
Principal Engineer at Uptick
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Knight is a Principal Engineer with 14+ years building cloud-native, highly available systems across infrastructure, networking, data, and software disciplines. He has led engineering and cloud practices at startups and scale-ups including Roundtrip, Kickstarter, and Uptick, focusing on portability, scalability, and resilient distributed workloads. A hands-on contributor to Terraform-related projects, he improved AWS OpsWorks import and NAT Gateway support—demonstrating deep AWS infrastructure and testing expertise. Brian’s background in geology and early work building 3D mining databases informs a systems-minded approach to complex, multi-layered problems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technologist who seeks cross-disciplinary challenges and prefers solutions that survive at scale.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Geological Sciences, Master of Science, Geological Sciences at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Science, Geology, Bachelor of Science, Geology at William & Mary
Github Skills (14)
terraformer10
infrastructure-as-code10
go10
aws10
cloud-manager10
terraform10
testing10
devops9
ruby9
aws-cloudformation8
command-line7
cli7
command-line-interface7
rspec6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
dtan4/terraforming
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Export existing AWS resources to Terraform style (tf, tfstate) / No longer actively maintained
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:10 commits, 1 PR in 11 days
Contributions summary:Brian's contributions focused on expanding the functionality of the `terraforming` repository, specifically to include features for AWS OpsWorks resources and NAT Gateways. They implemented new resources, added related CLI commands, and updated the code with necessary supporting files like templates and tests. The user also made minor adjustments to code formatting and included regional configurations for AWS OpsWorks.
awsterraformtfstateruby-gem
hashicorp/terraform
Sep 2016 - Oct 2016
Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.
Role in this project:Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:5 commits, 3 comments, 3 issues in 7 days
Contributions summary:Brian's contributions focused on enhancing AWS OpsWorks integration within Terraform. They added the ability to import AWS OpsWorks stacks and custom layers, improving the tool's capabilities for managing existing infrastructure. Further commits involved fixing acceptance tests and adjusting region configurations, demonstrating a focus on testing and configuration within the AWS ecosystem.
terraformgraphinfrastructure-as-codecloudcloud-management
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