Jason Knebel
Lead Software Engineer at Eventshop
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJason Knebel is a Lead Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building secure, scalable platforms across financial services, e-commerce, and media. He began his career at Cognizant designing banking and auditing tools and has since led core engineering efforts—migrating legacy systems, designing multi-tenant GraphQL backends, and upgrading production Rails stacks. Jason blends hands-on development with security-minded leadership, focusing on the intersection of financial services and online safety while helping companies integrate payments and escrow flows. He has launched and managed trading platforms and secondary markets, scaled e-commerce architectures to handle 10x traffic, and acted as a technology advisor and managing partner on commercial fintech projects. Based in New York, he pairs an electrical engineering background with practical product-first engineering, often stepping into both architecture and operational roles to move complex systems into production.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering at University of MarylandAS Engineering, AS Engineering at Anne Arundel Community College
English
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Github Skills (36)
rails9
relay9
graphql-ruby8
graphql8
axlsx8
ruby8
reflection7
avalara7
sales-tax7
introspection7
ruby-on-rails6
jasperreports6
devise6
ngrok6
csv-reader5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ReserveBar1/spree_reservebar_core
Mar 2014 - Jun 2016
Contributions:657 commits, 44 PRs, 161 pushes in 2 years 3 months
ReserveBar1/spree_reservebar_reuse_credit_card
Mar 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 24 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 2 months
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