Ryan Knight
Founding Team Lead, Data Solutions
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Knight is a data and education technology leader with 11 years of experience building mission-driven products and analytics practices. He founded and led EdLight, a venture-backed startup that digitized and surfaced student thinking for teachers, and now leads the Data & AI practice at Insource to help organizations adopt AI and streamline data flows. His background spans strategy, evaluation, and analytics roles at large education networks and policy organizations, giving him a rare mix of hands-on data work and program-level impact. An active contributor to data-cleaning tooling in R, he has improved reliability and test coverage in community packages like janitor. A Yale MBA and a Pomona-trained mathematical economist, he blends quantitative rigor with product instincts to turn complex education problems into practical, teacher-facing solutions. Colleagues describe him as a founder-first operator who prioritizes effective teaching outcomes alongside scalable technical design.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Mathematical Economics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Mathematical Economics at Pomona CollegeMBA, MBA at Yale School of Management
Github Skills (6)
data-cleaning10
tidyverse10
data-science10
r10
data-analysis10
testing9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sfirke/janitor
Nov 2016 - Jan 2017
simple tools for data cleaning in R
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:12 commits, 5 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily focused on data cleaning and analysis tasks within the R programming language, contributing to the `janitor` package. Their commits involved modifying existing functions like `use_first_valid_of` and `add_totals`, which are core components of data manipulation. The user also worked on test cases, enhancing the reliability and robustness of the package's functionalities. Furthermore, the user's work included refactoring the code and addressing code quality issues as evidenced by deprecation of old functionalities, demonstrating an understanding of software development practices.
spsstabulationsdata-analysistidyverser-package
donowsolutions/deanslist
Sep 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 15 commits, 9 PRs in 9 months
wrapperapiapi-wrapper
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