Summary
John Knoll is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building reliable, full-stack systems and leading technical direction at companies like Stripe and Figma. He has a track record of driving operational excellence and high-visibility reliability work—most recently as tech lead for Refunds and Disputes at Stripe and now contributing at Figma. Comfortable across backend, frontend, and dev-ops, he combines deep domain modeling with pragmatic engineering to solve complex problems across large design surfaces. He co-founded Giving Garden, applying ML and local data to real-world problems, showing an entrepreneurial bent alongside enterprise experience. Based in Davis, California, he brings a background in biomedical engineering and a habit of translating interdisciplinary constraints into auditable, production-ready systems. Colleagues know him for pairing rigorous architecture with hands-on delivery and for winning cross-organization recognition for operational leadership.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Biomedical Engineering Engineering, Biomedical Engineering Engineering at University of California, Davis