D Knoble
Software Engineering Contractor at DK Technology, LLC
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolD Knoble is a software engineering contractor and Principal Associate SWE at Capital One with nine years of experience building reliable platform tooling, real-time data pipelines, and customer-facing UIs. He combines formal methods training (MS in CS, programming languages & formal verification) with hands-on delivery—driving CI/CD maturity, serverless migrations, and automation for systems processing millions of messages per second. An active open-source contributor, he has improved core developer ergonomics in widely used projects like Vim and Git and contributed Racket documentation and tooling. Known for organizing cross-functional efforts and running developer education, he brings a detail-oriented, practical mindset and a passion for tooling that benefits communities beyond the immediate product. Outside engineering, he reads and writes in English and French, plays clarinet, and holds a Tang Soo Do black belt—reflecting discipline and a broad curiosity that inform his work.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
French Language and Literature, French Language and Literature at Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier IIIMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
French
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vim
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Github Skills (40)
darktheme10
customizer10
git10
custom-theme10
text-editor10
scripting10
vimscript10
racket10
technical-writing10
testing10
bash10
c1110
c1710
vim10
script10
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
dracula/vim
Apr 2018 - Dec 2022
🧛🏻♂️ Dark theme for Vim
Role in this project:
UI Designer
UI DesignerContributions:22 reviews, 40 commits, 45 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:D primarily focused on enhancing the visual aspects and user experience of the Dracula theme for Vim. Their contributions include adjusting highlights for various Vim features, such as CursorColumn and SignColumn, aligning them with the overall theme. They also modified airline and lightline themes to improve their visual presentation. Furthermore, the user made several updates to the color scheme to maintain consistency and fix issues with non-existent highlighting groups.
dark-themedarkdraculavim
vim/vim
Jul 2017 - Mar 2025
The official Vim repository
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:30 reviews, 10 PRs, 217 comments in 7 years 9 months
Contributions summary:D primarily focused on enhancing the Vim text editor's functionality through a series of commits. Their work involved implementing a security feature by centralizing executable checks within a new vim library. They also updated the Racket runtime files, ensuring that the Racket indentation and syntax highlighting were up-to-date. Additionally, they modified the sh and zsh plugins to manage the `MANPAGER` environment variable for improved command execution and contributed to the Maven compiler integration.
vimvim-pluginc-plus-plusneovimcross-platform
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