Jeff Knupp
Software Engineer at Regal-Voice
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Knupp is a software engineer based in New York with 13 years building low-latency trading systems, big-data pipelines and scalable distributed platforms across the full stack—from Linux internals to a Go-based, fault-tolerant "operating system for data" on FreeBSD. He authored Writing Idiomatic Python, maintains the sandman/sandman2 REST API libraries (notably driving sandman2 to comprehensive test coverage), and has twice been the top trending developer on GitHub. A frequent open-source contributor, paid speaker, and private Python tutor, Jeff runs a widely read blog with over 100,000 monthly readers. Currently a Senior Platform Engineer at intelligent-artifacts, he pairs hands-on engineering with prior platform and data leadership experience.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Minor, Computer Science, Minor, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (27)
pytest10
python10
testing10
databases10
flask-ask10
orm10
sqlalchemy10
rest10
rest-api10
flask10
salesforce-rest-api10
database10
tornado9
cookie9
api-rest8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jeffknupp/sandman
Jul 2013 - Jul 2018
Sandman "makes things REST".
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:155 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jeff made multiple commits focused on improving the project's structure and updating dependencies. They bumped the version number, created a better directory structure, and merged release branches. Their work involved modifying configuration files such as setup.py and docs/conf.py, as well as modifying and adding various files, including a test database for better testing.
rest-apirestful-apirest
jeffknupp/sandman2
Oct 2014 - Dec 2020
Automatically generate a RESTful API service for your legacy database. No code required!
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer/Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer/Test Automation EngineerContributions:118 commits, 49 PRs, 3245 pushes in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily contributed to the quality and functionality of the `sandman2` project. Their main focus was on adding comprehensive tests with 100% coverage. This involved writing tests for various REST API endpoints, including GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE operations, ensuring the API's behavior under different scenarios. Additionally, the user refactored and added to the base code of the project.
no-code-databaseapipythonno-databasesqlalchemy
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