Daniel Knudsen
Backend API Engineer at Stripe
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Knudsen is a backend API engineer with 8 years of experience building high-scale, production-critical services for companies like Stripe and Amazon. He has led technical efforts across Prime Gaming and AWS QLDB to re-architect dataplanes, design multi-tenant fulfillment orchestration, and improve availability and latency at massive scale. His work often focuses on reusable infrastructure and automation—efforts that have consolidated systems, reduced delivery effort, and cut operational overhead for teams and customers. Comfortable as a tech lead and individual contributor, he combines systems engineering rigor from Washington University with a track record of shipping ahead of schedule and driving cross-team adoption of frameworks. Based in Seattle, he brings a pragmatic, metrics-driven approach to backend reliability and developer productivity.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Systems Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Systems Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis
English, French
Github Skills (7)
amazon-qldb9
driver8
python5
nodejs5
praw4
java4
reddit4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
danieledwardknudsen/cse332_sp18
Feb 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:8 PRs, 29 pushes, 17 branches in 2 months
washuspringstudios
danieledwardknudsen/weather
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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