Jeff Knight
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VP of Engineering
Austin, Texas, United States
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VP of EngineeringChangeorgNov 2025 - Current (10 months)- VP of EngineeringGlimmerAug 2022 - Oct 2025 (3 years 3 months)
- Head of Web EngineeringGlimmerDec 2019 - Aug 2022 (2 years 9 months)
- Director of EngineeringSegmentJan 2019 - Nov 2019 (11 months)
- GChief ArchitectGear ZeroFeb 2015 - Jan 2016 (1 year)• Employee #3 at a buzzword friendly stealth mode startup responsible for building highly available distributed systems which are Responsive, Resilient, Elastic, and Message Driven. • Backend technology stack built on top of Scala/Akka/Spark, Mesos w/ Marathon, Kafka, Redis, Cassandra, Mysql, and deployed in the cloud on Amazon EC2. • Frontend technologies include Node.js, AngularJS, and React.
- Senior Director of EngineeringSpark NetworksFeb 2008 - Feb 2015 (7 years 1 month)Zoosk was acquired by Spark Networks • 5th employee and first engineering hire responsible for all phases of development, working cross stack to build Zoosk into a world class dating destination with over 35 million active members in 80+ countries • Responsible for defining engineering roadmaps and performing technical due diligence. • Defined engineering hiring processes, career levels and development standards. • Managed and led multiple development teams representing all of Zoosk's mobile offerings including iOS, Android, and mobile web (HTML5). Zoosk was consistently ranked a Top Ten Grossing App in the App Store. • Lead for Zoosk's internal incubator for the onboarding of new talent and development of new properties within Zoosk. • Res
- AManager, Information SystemsAustin TeleServices ATSMay 2005 - Jan 2008 (2 years 9 months)• Responsible for installation/decommission, logistics support, and field engineering. • Built a customized Web 2.0 inventory management portal using PHP, JQuery, and Mysql.
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- Bachelor of Science (BS, Computer ScienceThe University of Texas at Austin
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- EExercises in PerformanceMany techniques have been developed over the years to address the issue of latency and interactivity, the most obvious being the rise of Web 2.0 and the dynamic loading of content after page render. Ajax has been the panacea of low latency websites, allowing for non blocking page loads and deferring high cost operations until such time as that content is needed or requested. This has gotten us far, but we can do better.