Jeff Knecht
Professional Sabbatical
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Knecht is a software delivery practice leader with two decades of hands-on engineering and architecture experience who has built and led national delivery capabilities and DevOps practices at scale. As a former Senior Director and Practice Area Director at Slalom, he grew and managed teams of 80+ engineers and helped define the Product Engineering Methodology that underpins Slalom's cross-market delivery. He combines strategic advisory—roadmaps, gap analysis, and cloud/CI/CD enablement—with operational oversight on large, strategic client programs, including early successful integrations with federal health exchanges. Known as an evangelist for holistic DevOps culture, Jeff blends people-first leadership with a track record of measurable delivery outcomes across startups and Global 500 clients. Currently on a professional sabbatical, he continues to draw on deep experience in agile transformation, architecture, and delivery to mentor and advise organizations.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BBA, Finance, Accounting, BBA, Finance, Accounting at University of Cincinnati Carl H. Lindner College of Business
Github Skills (25)
sqlite8
database8
sql7
system-clock4
architecture2
time-machine2
mechanism2
spring-boot2
clock2
spring1
asp-net-core1
analytics1
java1
compact-framework1
dotnet1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jknecht/baseball-archive-sqlite
Feb 2012 - Nov 2022
SQLite versions of Sean Lahman's baseball archive data
Contributions:12 releases, 7 commits, 1 PR in 10 years 11 months
data-archivesqlsqlite3archivesqlite
jknecht/database-resource-bundle
Mar 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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