Summary
Keith Knight is a seasoned engineering leader with 13+ years building SaaS and enterprise systems, currently serving as VP of Engineering at Ridgeline where he scales a high-growth investment management platform. He blends hands-on architecture and development experience—spanning Cloud, Web, WinForms, Node.js, Redis, and Azure—with strong team leadership and operational ownership of development and IT functions. His background includes directing technology at hedge-fund and investment analytics firms, integrating systems via Salesforce APIs and authoring IoC tooling like a SimpleInjector.AutoRegistration module. Keith pairs academic rigor (MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech) with practical curiosity, having built an NLP/NLP‑driven due diligence engine during a sabbatical and a CQRS-style Node.js reference architecture in his spare time. He’s known for empowering teams to deliver reliable, scalable systems while continuing to contribute useful open-source libraries and architectural patterns.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Bachelors of Science, Biochemistry, Bachelors of Science, Biochemistry at Brigham Young University