David Knight
Tech Specialist, IT Software Integration
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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SeniorDavid Knight is a versatile tech specialist with 13 years of experience blending UX design, front-end development, product ownership, and systems automation to deliver practical business solutions. Currently integrating IT software at Lucid Motors, he has led migrations and governance projects—most notably moving Jira Server to Jira Cloud and building API-driven automations with Workato to streamline complex processes. His background ranges from senior front-end engineering and UX to program and product management, giving him a rare ability to translate user-centered design into robust, automated workflows. An open-source contributor, he rewrote and hardened the widely used matchMedia.js polyfill, demonstrating attention to cross-browser compatibility and test coverage. Based in Philadelphia, he pairs hands-on technical craft with stakeholder-facing program leadership, often surfacing process improvements that reduce overhead while increasing consistency.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (6)
compatible10
javascript10
media-queries10
browser-support10
testing9
css9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
paulirish/matchMedia.js
Aug 2013 - Oct 2013
matchMedia polyfill for testing media queries in JS
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to enhancing the functionality and maintainability of the matchMedia.js polyfill. Their work included a complete rewrite for performance improvements, refactoring existing code, and adding comments for clarity. They also added tests to validate the implementation of the polyfill and its integration with the addListener functionality. These changes show a focus on improving the robustness and browser compatibility of the library.
matchmediapolyfilltestingjavascriptmedia-query
weblinc/media-match
Dec 2012 - Jun 2013
Contributions:54 commits, 2 comments in 6 months
matchmediapolyfillfollowcssjavascript
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