Chris Knight
Lead Software Engineer at Brainpool AI / Tunedd
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Knight is a Lead Software Engineer and Computational Physics PhD with 11 years of experience designing cloud-native, data-intensive systems and ML-enabled products. He blends low-level C/C++ HPC expertise with production Python and Go development, having built autoscaling Kubernetes pipelines, Spark-based analytics, and RAG-powered LLM applications for VC due diligence. Chris has led small engineering teams through product discovery to deployment—designing AWS and GCP infrastructure with Terraform, building APIs with FastAPI, and automating CI/CD for reliable delivery. His academic work on fluid–particle simulations taught him to wrangle TB-scale datasets and optimise parallel code, a practical discipline he’s applied to industrial digital twinning and automated design tools. Based in the UK, he pairs rigorous research-driven problem solving with product-minded engineering, and, less obviously, frequently prototypes solutions that marry C++ performance with Python operability.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computational Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computational Physics at Imperial College LondonMPhys + BSc Physics, MPhys + BSc Physics at University of LeedsQueen Elizabeth Grammar School Wakefield
English
Github Skills (200)
json-schema10
swagger10
openapi10
swagger-ui10
api10
json10
llm10
python10
asgi10
high-performance10
optimization10
rest10
periodic10
reinforcement-learning10
redoc10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
chrisk314/riotjs-nginx-example-app
May 2020 - Apr 2024
Example minimalist web app with Riot.js + Pure.CSS + Nginx + Certbot + Docker
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
nginxhtml5webpack4certbot-dockerpure-js
chrisk314/django-celery-docker-example
Oct 2018 - Apr 2021
Example Docker setup for a Django app behind an Nginx proxy with Celery workers
Contributions:24 commits, 7 PRs, 25 pushes in 2 years 7 months
nginxdokkupythondocker-setupproxy
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