Derek Kniffin
Senior Full Stack Developer at Quimbee
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Kniffin is a Senior Full Stack Developer with 13 years of experience building resilient web applications and APIs, currently driving product development at Quimbee from Raleigh, NC. He brings deep Ruby on Rails and React expertise, honed through roles as a software architect leading cross-disciplinary teams and lifting test coverage and system stability for complex, production-critical systems. Derek pairs backend data craftsmanship—evidenced by contributions to the widely used OpenStreetMap CartoCSS tooling—with front-end UX improvements like React refactors and media control features in open-source projects. His background managing databases and automating operations at the University of Colorado gives him strong operational instincts alongside feature delivery. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture, mentorship, and turning messy requirements into maintainable, well-tested software.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Colorado at BoulderHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma, High School Diploma, High School Diploma at West Johnston High School
English, American Sign Language, Spanish
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Github Skills (30)
javascript10
electron10
scripting10
bash10
ruby10
data-processing10
react10
openstreetmap9
security9
ui-design9
media-player9
sound-player9
music9
player9
audio-player9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
martpie/museeks
Nov 2016 - Jan 2017
🎵 A simple, clean and cross-platform music player
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:38 commits, 15 PRs, 1 branch in 1 month
Contributions summary:Derek primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and user experience of the Museeks music player. Their contributions involved cleaning up and styling UI elements such as settings checkboxes, adding functionality to the tray menu (including media controls), and refactoring existing React components for better organization. They also addressed bugs related to tray behavior and media key handling, improving the overall usability of the application.
reactelectroncross-platform-music-playercleancross-platform
gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto
Aug 2013 - Jun 2014
A general-purpose OpenStreetMap mapnik style, in CartoCSS
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 5 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Derek primarily focused on data processing and filtering within the context of OpenStreetMap data. Their contributions included writing a Ruby script (`shop_values.rb`) to filter shop tags based on frequency and exclusion lists. They also worked on a bash script (`get-shapefiles.sh`) to download and process geographic shapefiles. The work appears to be aimed at preparing data for use in generating a map style.
openstreetmap-datanominatimcartographypurposemap
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