Knute Snortum
Music Directory at Curious Comedy Theater
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolKnute Snortum is a versatile technologist and musician based in Portland, Oregon, blending 12 years of software development and systems analysis experience with 35 years of professional music performance. He has built enterprise solutions using Java, C#, Spring, SharePoint and multiple databases while supporting clients like Nike and contributing to ERP and migration projects earlier in his career. As Music Director at Curious Comedy Theater since 2011 he improvises live scores, teaches piano, and brings musical storytelling to comedy and church settings across genres from jazz to classical and fusion. Knute’s background in escalated technical support and systems analysis gives him a practical troubleshooting mindset and a knack for translating complex requirements into maintainable solutions. Comfortable switching between codebases and keyboards, he combines attention to detail from software debugging with creative spontaneity honed by improvisational performance. Outside work he mentors students through piano lessons, pairing pedagogy with real-world gig experience.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
AA, Music, AA, Music at Diablo Valley Collegepre-Bachelor, CompSci, pre-Bachelor, CompSci at Portland Community College
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Github Skills (36)
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java7
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github5
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ksnortum/home-finance
Jun 2016 - May 2023
An easy, simple home finance app written in Java
Contributions:6 PRs, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years
financejava
ksnortum/javafx-multi-scene-fxml
Jun 2018 - Jan 2022
A demonstration of one way to create a multi-scene JavaFX app using FXML files
Contributions:22 commits, 7 PRs, 23 pushes in 3 years 7 months
fxmljavajavafxscene
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