Michael Knopf
Founding Engineer at Savi Security
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Knopf is a founding engineer and backend specialist with nine years of experience designing maintainable, scalable distributed systems for security and data platforms. Based in San Francisco, he has led architecture and platform initiatives at Splunk and TruSTAR, transforming monoliths into decoupled services and building shared libraries for observability, logging, gRPC, and Kafka. He brings hands-on expertise across Java/Spring, Python, Spark/Databricks, AWS, Docker, and CI/CD, and has built public SDKs and customer integrations that bridge product and solutions engineering. At Savi Security he’s applying that foundation to protect families from scams while shipping consumer-facing tooling like Scamwise. Colleagues rely on him to standardize engineering practices and deliver reproducible deployment and testing frameworks that accelerate teams. His background in mathematics and tutoring hints at a methodical, data-driven approach to problem solving and mentorship.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics and Statistics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics and Statistics at University of California, BerkeleyMathematics and Computer Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Engineering at Glendale Community College
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Github Skills (35)
python-sdk10
logger9
pluggable9
logrus9
logging9
api8
spring-boot8
sdk8
zap8
security8
spring-cloud-consul8
structured-logging7
java7
spring7
golang6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
michaelknopf/Galaga
Dec 2016 - Oct 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 6 branches in 7 years 10 months
trustar/trustar-python
Oct 2017 - Jun 2020
Python SDK and sample codes for the TruSTAR API
Contributions:18 releases, 266 commits, 44 PRs in 2 years 7 months
apipythonsecuritysdksdk-python
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