Ethan Knowlton
Software Engineer
North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEthan Knowlton is a software engineer with 11 years of experience who over the last five-plus years has pivoted into DevOps and cloud infrastructure, specializing in AWS services such as ECS, EKS, Lambda, API Gateway and RDS. He blends hands-on full-stack development roots—in PHP and Ruby—with production-grade orchestration and networking, having progressed from web developer roles to Principal Software Engineer at Generation Tux. Ethan contributes to open-source tooling around backend systems (notably improving SSL and error handling in a Kafka PHP client), reflecting a pragmatic focus on reliability and security. Based in North Carolina, he pairs a practical, security-minded approach with experience upgrading legacy systems and building test suites, making him effective at modernizing and operating cloud-native applications.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Jefferson Community CollegeBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Western Governors University
Github Skills (6)
configuration-management10
kafka10
php10
ssl10
testing9
protocols8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
weiboad/kafka-php
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
kafka php client
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ethan primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the Kafka PHP client. Their contributions included adding features to support SSL configurations, specifically enabling and disabling mutual authentication. They also addressed code quality by correcting spacing inconsistencies and added doc annotations. Furthermore, the user implemented error handling for SSL configurations.
kafka-consumerphp-clientprotocolphpproducer
kimmelsg/actionmailbox-imap
Aug 2019 - Sep 2019
A IMAP relay for ActionMailbox.
Contributions:3 releases, 151 commits, 18 PRs in 20 days
emailrelayimap
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