Ryan Knight

Ryan Knight is a Senior Technologist with over 20 years of expertise in engineering management, architecture, development, product management, training, and customer engineering. He has a strong track record of building agile roadmaps by collaborating with business and engineers effectively. Ryan specializes in building large scale, distributed applications on the Java Platform in the cloud.

His areas of expertise include data engineering, developing big data and data pipeline solutions utilizing tools like Kafka, Spark Streaming, and Cassandra. Ryan is well-versed in a wide range of technologies such as Scala, Java, SQL, NoSQL Databases, Spark, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and TypeScript. Moreover, he has some experience with blockchains and smart contracts.

As a Worldwide Conference Speaker and Trainer, Ryan has shared his knowledge at prestigious conferences like Devoxx France and Belgium, JavaOne, StrangeLoop, and various meet-ups globally. He is also experienced in building and delivering technical training and assisting clients in solving complex business problems through technical solutions.

Ryan Knight pursued a Masters in Engineering Management from the University of Colorado at Boulder and completed his Bachelors in Computer Science at Utah Valley University. Throughout his career, he has held notable roles such as Principal Software Architect/CEO at Grand Cloud, Director of Solution Architecture at Fauna Inc., Enterprise Solution Engineer at DataStax, Consultant/Trainer at Typesafe, and more.

Prior to his current positions, Ryan has served in various capacities including Senior Software Engineer at Riot Games, Java Engineer/Architect at FamilySearch.org, Java Architect/Consultant at Sun Microsystems, and as a Research Intern at Novell. His diverse background and wealth of experience make him a valuable asset in the tech industry.