Sun Knudsen
Founder And CEO at YouTube
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSun Knudsen is a privacy and security researcher, YouTuber with a 60k+ audience, and serial founder with 11 years of experience building privacy-first products. As Founder and CEO of Superbacked he’s developing a cross-generational secret management platform trusted by users in 22+ countries and incubated by Cybereco, while also serving as Co-founder and CTO at nimble bubble to bring feedback-driven human learning tools to organizations. His background includes securing DeFi at TrueFi and building privacy-conscious analytics used by brands like L’Oréal and Moment Factory, blending applied security research with product-focused engineering. Sun contributes to open-source React/TypeScript tooling—enhancing the well-known react-medium-image-zoom library—reflecting a hands-on front-end skill set alongside cryptography and key management expertise. Based in Montreal, he pairs a creative BFA photography background with technical leadership, a combination that informs both user-centered design and rigorous threat modeling. He also maintains a public PGP key and funds privacy education through the Privacy Guides project, underscoring a commitment to practical privacy advocacy.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Photography, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Photography at Concordia University
English, French
Stackoverflow
6,826reputation
1.5mreached
121answers
174questions
typescript
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react-hooks
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jsx
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mariadb
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Github Skills (14)
typescript10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
jsx9
mariadb9
react-hooks9
nodejs6
material-ui6
bash6
javascript6
eslint6
macos6
create-react-app6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
rpearce/react-medium-image-zoom
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
🔎 🏞 The original medium.com-inspired image zooming library for React (since 2016)
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 55 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Sun primarily focused on enhancing the `react-medium-image-zoom` library, implementing new features and improving existing ones. They introduced the `wrapElement` option, allowing developers to customize the wrapper element of the zoomed image. Additionally, they modified the component's type definitions and updated the stories to accommodate the new functionality, indicating a focus on component flexibility and usability. The commits demonstrate expertise in React and TypeScript, key technologies within the project's scope.
reactreact-imagesimagezoom-imagesmedium-com
sunknudsen/react-node-to-string
Nov 2020 - Aug 2021
Extract string from React node.
Contributions:2 reviews, 8 commits, 2 PRs in 9 months
reactstringjavascriptnodejsreact-node
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