Zak Knill
Senior Software Engineer at Ably
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolZak Knill is a Senior Software Engineer based in England with 10 years’ experience solving distributed cloud scaling and infrastructure challenges. He combines hands-on Go development with platform and system design, having built containerised services, multi-cloud scaling layers, and an ML model hosting platform. At Attest he shaped tech vision, reorganised teams to reduce dependencies, and led product-led growth efforts while mentoring engineers across multiple squads. Currently at Ably, he continues to focus on resilient, real-time systems and developer experience. Colleagues know him as a pragmatic problem-solver who balances architectural thinking with day-to-day delivery. He brings both startup agility and production-grade engineering discipline to complex distributed systems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Oundle SchoolBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Upper Second Class (Hons), Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Upper Second Class (Hons) at University of Sussex
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Github Skills (123)
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Github contributions (5)
Attest/service
Jul 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 1 push in 1 year 7 months
zknill/builder
Nov 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year
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