Summary
Cody Knauer is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience leading and scaling software teams across high-growth product and manufacturing domains from Chicago. He has a track record of turning technical strategy into measurable business outcomes—driving revenue growth, halving critical analysis latencies, and shipping marketplace and factory products that materially improved margins. Cody builds cross-functional partnerships and organizational structures that let engineers own outcomes while maintaining velocity, and he’s comfortable shifting between hands-on implementation and strategic leadership. He’s delivered platform-level improvements (CI/CD, observability, shared services) that boosted developer productivity and reliability, and has managed teams of 30 while mentoring multiple managers and senior engineers. His background spans full-stack delivery, service- and event-driven architectures, and integrations with CAD and manufacturing systems, reflecting a rare blend of product, platform, and domain expertise. Outside formal roles he’s cultivated engineering culture through hack days, show-and-tells, and practical learning rituals that surface innovation.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Elgin Community College
English, Spanish