Richard Knop
Senior Software Engineer at EthiFinance
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRichard Knop is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building backend systems in Go and Python, and a deep operational background in AWS, Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes. He has driven high-throughput services at scale (e.g., driver app services at Grab handling ~50k QPS) and currently architects domain-driven, hexagonal systems at ESG Book using Go, Postgres and Kafka on GCP. An active open-source maintainer, Richard created Machinery (a Celery-like task queue for Go) and has contributed bug fixes and test coverage to prominent projects such as GORM and braintree-go. He combines pragmatic DevOps and infrastructure-as-code skills with thoughtful backend design, and is known for turning brittle monoliths into resilient microservices. Based in London, he brings a proven track record of shipping production-ready distributed systems and improving testability and reliability across diverse products.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bc. (Bachelor's degree) Cybernetics / Artificial Intelligence, Bc. (Bachelor's degree) Cybernetics / Artificial Intelligence at The Technical University of KošiceSchool leaving exams, School leaving exams at Evanjelické gymnázium J. A. Komenského
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Github Skills (34)
database-migrations10
postgresql10
back-end-development10
go-gorm10
testing10
forloop10
go10
orm10
database-migration10
oauth10
ubuntu9
zend-framework9
jquery9
mux9
opencv9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
braintree-go/braintree-go
Apr 2017 - Aug 2017
A Go client library for Braintree
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:7 commits, 8 PRs, 17 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily contributed to the development of testing infrastructure and the addition of specific fields to existing data structures. They implemented a `WebhookTestingGateway` for simulating webhook notifications, improving the testing capabilities of the library. Further contributions included adding a `SubscriptionId` field to the `Transaction` struct and writing a test to verify its correct usage. They also added and updated transaction status constants, and made changes to strip elements from webhook notification XML.
braintreego
go-gorm/gorm
Dec 2015 - Jul 2016
The fantastic ORM library for Golang, aims to be developer friendly
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 10 PRs, 17 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily contributed to bug fixes and addressing edge cases within the GORM library, specifically related to the preload functionality. Their work involved correcting issues with pointers and zero values, which could cause panics. The commits show modifications to the `preload.go` file and the addition of new tests in `preload_test.go` to cover various preload scenarios. They addressed issues with nested preloads and preloading of many-to-many relationships.
golangorm-librarygoormgorm
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