Knut Melvær
Principal Developer Marketing Manager at Sanity
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolKnut Melvær is a Principal Developer Marketing Manager with 12 years of experience building developer relations, education, and community programs for Sanity, where he also contributes code to the flagship Sanity Studio open-source project. He blends hands-on full-stack development—improving CLI onboarding and the Vision plugin—with strategic developer marketing, content, and certification programs to grow product adoption. Based in Oakland, he bridges product, comms, and developer support teams to translate technical needs into delightful developer experiences. With an academic background in the study of religions and a history of tech journalism, he brings an uncommon mix of analytical research skills and clear technical storytelling to developer-facing work. He’s known for practical, UX-minded improvements to developer tooling and a propensity for dry jokes on LinkedIn.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (Unfinished), The Study of Religions, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (Unfinished), The Study of Religions at University of Bergen (UiB)
English, Norwegian, German
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Github Skills (13)
cms10
javascript10
react10
cli10
headlessui9
headless-browser9
headless-cms9
wpgraphql5
wordpress-graphql5
graphql5
typescript4
typescripts4
typescript-types4
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
sanity-io/sanity
May 2018 - Mar 2022
Sanity Studio – Rapidly configure content workspaces powered by structured content
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:34 reviews, 34 commits, 54 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Knut primarily contributed to the Sanity Studio, a headless CMS. Their work involved improvements to the CLI, including new commands for project listing and enhancements to the onboarding experience. They also worked on front-end aspects, by improving the user experience in the Vision plugin. Additionally, the user addressed code quality with a refactor of an import-related error message.
cmsheadlessreactrealtimesanity-studio
netliferesearch/ndla-frontend
Oct 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:21 PRs, 48 pushes, 3 branches in 8 months
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