Ryan Knight
Senior Partner Architect at Neo4j
Park City, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Knight is a Senior Partner Architect with 14 years of experience designing cloud-native, data-intensive systems and now building production-ready Generative AI and agentic applications. He has evolved from software engineer to consultant and founder, advising enterprises and C-suite stakeholders while leading teams to deliver scalable architectures using AWS, Kubernetes, Databricks, Spark, Kafka, and graph technologies. At Neo4j he blends graph expertise with AI to create enterprise-grade RAG/GraphRAG and agent solutions, and his open-source Durable Agent Framework demonstrates a focus on durable, reliable LLM-driven workflows. A seasoned conference speaker and mentor, Ryan pairs practical implementation skills in Go, Python and Java with deep distributed-systems intuition—an approach informed by early work on reactive systems and service meshes like Istio. Based in Park City, Utah, he’s known for turning complex business requirements into resilient, maintainable platforms that unlock measurable business value.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Engineering Management, Masters Engineering Management at University of Colorado BoulderBachelors Computer Science, Bachelors Computer Science at Utah Valley University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (23)
service-mesh10
kubernetes10
bash10
bash-shell10
script10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
istio10
sh10
shell10
dockers9
docker9
helm9
cicd7
jetty6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
retroryan/istio-workshop
Sep 2017 - Sep 2019
Istio Workshop
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:168 commits, 36 PRs, 178 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily focused on configuring and deploying applications within an Istio service mesh using Kubernetes. Their contributions involved creating deployment scripts, modifying service definitions, and integrating Istio's service injection features. The user also updated the guestbook application and made minor fixes, including sleep timers and typo corrections, while also adding Helm installation instructions to the project. Additionally, they updated the project to Istio 0.5 and included changes to support fault injection.
istiokubernetesistio-workshopworkshop
retroryan/DataStaxSparkDemos
Sep 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:14 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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