David Kneisly
Engineering Manager at Chainlink Labs
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Kneisly is an experienced engineering manager based in San Diego with 10 years of delivering production software across finance, government, and blockchain domains. He blends hands-on full‑stack development—contributing UI and backend work to open-source projects like Egeria—with leadership roles driving scalability, data integrity, and automated workflows at companies such as Figure and Chainlink Labs. At Figure he led teams onboarding third‑party loans and building a Digital Asset Registry and Validation Oracle to enable faster product pivots and smoother secondary market sales. His IBM tenure includes architecting blockchain pilots for the DoD and USPS, where he moved quickly from prototyping smart contracts to leading client engagement and operational rollouts. Known for translating complex regulatory and logistics requirements into auditable, production-ready systems, he pairs technical depth with a strong track record of cross-functional delivery.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College Park
Github Skills (14)
javascript10
frontend10
front-end-development10
web-developer10
react10
carbon-design-system9
nodejs9
develop8
backend8
api-design7
api7
data-governance4
javas4
java4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
odpi/egeria
Jul 2020 - Dec 2020
Egeria core
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 6 PRs, 4 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the user interface (UI) of the Egeria project, specifically focusing on adding Carbon Components to the login page. They also updated the server-side code to handle admin-services requests, demonstrating backend logic. Further, the user implemented admin URL validation and added a configuration form to configure and deploy an OMAG server, showing experience with both frontend and backend aspects of the project.
egerialinux-foundationodpi-egeriaodpidata-engineering
dkneisly/egeria
Jul 2020 - Dec 2020
Open Metadata and Governance
Contributions:10 pushes, 5 branches in 4 months
data-managementmetadata-managementdata-governanceopen-metadatametadata
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