Casey Knolla
Staff Backend Software Engineer at LeoLabs
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCasey Knolla is a Staff Backend Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building automation, infrastructure, and scalable backend systems for manufacturing, aerospace, and autonomous vehicle platforms. Based in Portland, he specializes in Python and Go, refactoring monoliths into resilient microservices, improving test frameworks, and streamlining CI/CD for production robustness. He’s led backend teams and driven architecture and performance work at companies like LeoLabs, First Resonance, Zoox, and Proteus, often pairing domain knowledge of manufacturing with cloud migrations and data warehousing. Casey seeks out process inefficiencies and delights in automating them, turning recurring operational toil into reliable, auditable pipelines. He thrives on logic puzzles and complex interactions, which shows in his penchant for full-repo refactors and deep test coverage improvements. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, maintainable solutions that balance developer experience with production reliability.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering at Wichita State UniversityJapanese, Japanese at Kansai Gaidai University
Japanese
Github Skills (37)
angular8
react8
marshmallow8
typescript8
javascript8
nodejs8
journal7
quantile7
documented7
webargs7
flask7
rest-api6
beancount6
svd6
filemaker6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cknolla/flask-smorest-sqlalchemy-odata
May 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:29 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
cknolla/trading-journal
Apr 2020 - Oct 2021
Market trading journal
Contributions:2 commits, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
trading-journaljournalbeancountquantiletrading
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