Tony Faieta
Senior Software Engineer & Technical Lead at Knack
Saint Petersburg, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTony Faieta is a Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead with nine years of experience building collaborative ed-tech products and developer-friendly frontends. At Knack he leads the Applications team, owning React and React Native clients, a realtime whiteboard/video conferencing service, and a cross-platform design system that supports the company’s growth since Series A. He thrives in small, high-performing teams and has driven initiatives like a TypeScript migration, end-to-end CI/CD with GitHub Actions, and realtime features that lifted session KPIs by over 38%. Comfortable across Typescript, JavaScript, Rust and Go, Tony combines hands-on coding with mentorship, hiring, and product-aware engineering. Outside work he blends interests in education, sustainability and podcasting—experience he leveraged as a cofounder to build a cross-platform podcast product with 1K+ daily users and measurable retention gains.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Political Science and Government & Computer Science, 3.9 GPA, Associate's degree, Political Science and Government & Computer Science, 3.9 GPA at Santa Fe CollegeBachelor's degree, Computer Science & Political Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science & Political Science at University of Florida
Spanish, English
Github Skills (80)
sepa9
personalization9
upi9
viewer9
braintree9
native-library9
react-native-library9
debian8
apple-pay8
payment8
internationalization8
feed8
checkout8
gatsby8
parser8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
tfaieta/tfaieta.com
Jun 2018 - Mar 2019
Website and blog
Contributions:1 release, 10 PRs, 96 pushes in 8 months
tfaieta/DarkPDF
Sep 2018 - Apr 2019
An electron based dark pdf viewer.
Contributions:2 releases, 43 commits, 6 PRs in 7 months
pdfelectronpdf-viewerviewerdark
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