Tyler Knappe
Founder at Insightful Creations
Denver Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTyler Knappe is a founder and senior engineer with 12 years of experience building fault-tolerant, highly available distributed systems and full-stack applications, primarily using Ruby and JavaScript. He has driven backend reliability and performance at scale—supporting products with millions of users and thousands of requests per second—and reduced in-app errors by 90% through process and tooling improvements. At Aha! he led internal tooling, billing engine rewrites, and integrations (including a Trello webhook bridge), and he has deep experience optimizing databases, infrastructure, and UX. Previously a system administrator and test engineer, he blends hands-on ops knowledge with modern app development to own both reliability and feature delivery. Now leading Insightful Creations from Denver, he pairs entrepreneurial drive with a track record of mentoring engineers and shipping measurable business impact.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BE, Computer Science, BE, Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
Stackoverflow
526reputation
40kreached
20answers
5questions
Github Skills (128)
rubocop10
ruby-sdk10
cropperjs10
ruby10
pronto10
linter10
rubygems10
background-service10
code-analyzer10
vagrant10
image-cropper10
cropper10
static-code-analysis10
ruby-style-guide10
golang9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
knappe/rubygems.org
Mar 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:5 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 1 month
ruby-on-railshostingrailsrubygem
knappe/doorkeeper
Oct 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
doorkeeperprovideroauth-2railsruby
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