Evan Knowles
Enterprise Architect at Discovery Limited
Johannesburg Metropolitan Area South Africa
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Top SchoolEvan Knowles is an Enterprise Architect based in Johannesburg with 11 years of experience designing and delivering front-end and Java EE solutions across financial services and insurance. He currently oversees front-end technologies for multiple insurance divisions at Discovery, having progressed through system analyst and architect roles to senior system architect before stepping into enterprise-level responsibilities. With an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh and a strong background in computer science and applied mathematics, he blends rigorous academic training with practical architecture and team leadership. A seasoned presenter at JavaScript conferences and a longtime Java developer, he is comfortable spanning backend Java stacks and modern front-end ecosystems. Colleagues know him for thoughtful system design, pragmatic trade-offs, and a dry sense of humor that surfaces in his GitHub bio as “the king of meta.”
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Artificial Intelligence, MSc, Artificial Intelligence at The University of EdinburghBsc Honours, Computer Science, Bsc Honours, Computer Science at University of the Witwatersrand
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Github Skills (146)
telegram-api10
neo4j10
cypher10
telegram-bot10
telegram-bot-api10
directed-acyclic-graph10
filter10
neo4j-database10
javafx10
javascript9
api9
database9
graph-database9
telegram9
sonarqube9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
EvanKnowles/SAIDNumberExtension
Jul 2015 - Apr 2020
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
EvanKnowles/EvenMe
Jun 2022 - Jul 2024
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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