Justin Knoll
Co-Founder at Stealth AI Startup
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolJustin Knoll is a seasoned software executive and entrepreneur with 14+ years building products and teams that scale from early R&D to hundreds of millions of users and $30M+ revenue. As a founder and senior leader at companies including BitTorrent and MetaMask/Consensys, he has shipped cross-platform consumer apps, created extensible developer ecosystems (notably MetaMask Snaps), and led organization growth from tens to 200+ people. He combines deep technical expertise in distributed systems, cryptography, blockchain and Web3 with a data-driven, process-oriented approach to product strategy and ops. Justin has driven protocol-level innovation—co-authoring a BitTorrent blockchain whitepaper that helped catalyze acquisition discussions—and built production systems for petabyte-scale analytics and secure remote access. Recently he’s focused on AI, deep learning and LLMs through consulting and a stealth AI startup while continuing hands-on research and projects documented publicly. Based in San Francisco, he thrives on highly technical, multidisciplinary problems that require navigating complex tradeoffs between product, engineering and economics.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeComputer Science, Computer Science at Stanford University
English
Github Skills (20)
nodejs7
browser7
streaming7
webrtc6
torrent6
javascript6
p2p5
bittorrent5
webtorrent5
blockchain4
typescript3
metamask2
ipfs2
react2
monorepo2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jknoll/gaussian-noise
Nov 2015 - Aug 2024
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 11 months
jknoll/gmail-graphite
Oct 2012 - Jan 2021
Contributions:47 commits, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 4 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.