Manuel Familia
Senior Principal Software Engineer at The Knot Worldwide
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolManuel Familia is a seasoned engineering leader with 11+ years building and scaling web platforms, currently serving as Senior Principal Software Engineer at The Knot Worldwide after rising through principal and lead engineering roles. He blends hands-on development, build engineering, and process design—often stressing "process, process, process"—to drive efficiency and value across product teams. Manuel has a track record of stepping into operational leadership, from interim CTO at BoxSmart to Director of Engineering at Plyfe, where he aligned development and content ingestion workflows. Trained as a mechanical engineer, he brings an analytical, systems-oriented mindset to software architecture and delivery. Based in Jersey City, he balances technical depth with team coaching and a curiosity for new technologies, and outside work enjoys snowboarding and ice skating.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Mechanical Engineering BS, Mechanical Engineering BS at New Jersey Institute of Technology
English, Spanish
Github Skills (45)
scrollable9
sticky9
aviary8
hashids8
bank7
rails-app6
sdk6
aws6
aws-sdk6
amcharts6
react5
ruby5
graph5
javascript4
visualization4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mfamilia/neural-network
Apr 2016 - Oct 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 35 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
mfamilia/dev_env
Nov 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
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