Dave Knoester
Principal Software Engineer at Amazon
Detroit, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolDave Knoester is a Principal Software Engineer with 14 years of professional experience, currently leading complex software initiatives at Amazon in the Detroit area. He combines industry-grade engineering—spanning finance, information security, automotive embedded systems, and cloud services—with an academic lens shaped by a PhD and an NSF postdoctoral fellowship. Previously an assistant professor, he brings research-driven problem solving and a record of mentoring and teaching into large-scale product development. His career includes early embedded systems work at General Motors and quantitative software at FactSet, giving him deep expertise across low-level systems and high-scale distributed architectures. Known for bridging rigorous research methods with pragmatic delivery, he excels at turning complex technical requirements into reliable, production-ready systems. Based in Detroit, he uniquely blends academic rigor in ecology/evolutionary-computational thinking with hands-on software leadership at a major tech company.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering at University of MichiganPhD Computer Science and Ecology Evolutionary Biology & Behavior, PhD Computer Science and Ecology Evolutionary Biology & Behavior at Michigan State University
Github Skills (7)
evolutionary10
evolutionary-algorithms10
machine-learning9
scala2
macros2
sbt1
scala-native1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
dknoester/ealib
Jun 2012 - Jan 2020
Evolutionary Algorithms Library
Contributions:441 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 7 years 9 months
evolutionarymachine-learningevolutionary-algorithms
dknoester/evocadx
Jan 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:28 commits in 5 months
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