Knowles Atchison
Senior Software Engineer at Synergist Computing
Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolKnowles Atchison is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack and distributed systems, currently focused on Vue.js and Python/Flask at Synergist Computing. He has deep expertise in Java ecosystems—Kafka, Spring, Camel, ActiveMQ—and has architected real-time streaming and messaging platforms, including custom Kafka connectors and client libraries. Comfortable across C/C++, Java, Python, Node.js and TypeScript, he’s built end-to-end infrastructure, Kubernetes integrations, and observability stacks with Prometheus and Grafana. His work spans rapid prototyping to production-grade systems for near real-time analytics and Elasticsearch-backed search, and he has led teams of up to ten developers. Johns Hopkins-educated in computational theory, he pairs rigorous academic foundations with hands-on experience porting and optimizing real-time C++/Java engines. An active community mentor and long-time forum moderator, he brings both technical depth and a demonstrated commitment to knowledge sharing.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer and Information Science, Minor: Business Administration, BS Computer and Information Science, Minor: Business Administration at University of Maryland University CollegeJohns Hopkins University
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Github Skills (34)
mysql-database10
mariadb-database10
mysql-server10
mysql10
mariadb10
kafka10
mariadb-connector10
java10
scala10
apache-kafka10
mariadb4j10
streaming10
database10
linkedin8
tailwind8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
TheKnowles/react-wordle
Feb 2022 - Mar 2024
A word guessing game made using React, Typescript, and Tailwind
Contributions:28 pushes, 15 branches in 2 years 1 month
guessing-gamereacttailwindcsstailwindword-guessing
TheKnowles/MariaDB4j
Mar 2023 - Oct 2025
MariaDB Embedded in Java JAR
Contributions:4 releases, 8 PRs, 60 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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