Paul Knopf

• Led several teams/initiatives.
• Established an ecosystem of libraries, frameworks and pipeline templates to enable rapid development/deployment of various workloads (microservices, Azure resources, terraform, etc).
• Rollout of kubernetes clusters, established the process for teams to deploy/mantain/monitor their workloads.
• Design/implementation/rollout of a micro-frontend client-side architecture, enabling teams to develop modules locally and deploy them into a single integrated client-side application.
• Design/implementation/rollout of Temporal for orchestrating workflows, combining new/legacy systems, creating new use-cases.
• Design/implementation/rollout of CQRS pattern, addressed upper performance limits of our current architecture, resulting in dramatic performance improvements, and significant savings through database SKU optimization.
• Regular presentations to the company on new technologies, best practices, and architecture.

Technologies used:

• Architecture
• .NET Core
• Microservices
• Dapper/OrmLite
• Kubernetes
• React/TypeScript
• Micro-frontends
• Temporal
• Azure DevOps
• Azure
• Terraform
• ElasticSearch
• Postgres
• Redis

Managing a team of people on a wide-array of projects across different languages/platforms.

Some key points:

• Overseen design/implementation of next-generation perscriptive architecture/platform for medical imaging software.
• Protobuf/gRPC microservice architecture with a focus on performance and stability, emphasis on golang.
• Cooridination with firmware team to ensure driver/software development feature parity.
• ASP.NET (and .NET Core) React application/MVC APIs, multi-tenancy, on-site deployments with automated updates.
• Established usage of IDesign's "The Method", an approach for system and project design.

Technologies used:

• Architecture
• .NET
• ASP.NET MVC
• Microservices
• Protobuf/gRPC
• Docker
• SQLite/MongoDB/Postgres
• C/C++
• Golang
• JavaScript/TypeScript
• Cloud (Microsoft Azure)
• CI/CD (Pipelines)
• Unit Testing

Thought leader for a small team of developers in the embedded and web space.

Some key points:

• Manage IT infrastructure for software (build agents, on-prem GitLab, etc) and project management.
• Embedded .NET Core runtime in native executable, integration interop with V8.
• iOS/Android application development using the Xamarin platform.
• ASP.NET WebAPIs for consumption in mobile platform.
• DirectShow and gstreamer for encoding/decoding with various video formats, including H264/MP4.
• WPF and Qt/QtQuick implementations of digital recording software on embedded devices.
• C++/C for internal libraries used to connect to record video and connect to hospital networks (DICOM/HL7).
• Custom Embedded Linux distros for embedded devices (Yocto).
  • Brickless update design.
  • Read-only boot with tmpfs overlay for stability and resilience.
• Compilation and cross-compilation (vc++, gcc, MAKE, CMAKE, meson, autotools, etc).

Technologies used:

• .NET
• ASP.NET MVC
• WPF
• Qt
• Docker
• SQLite/Postgres
• C/C++
• Golang
• JavaScript/TypeScript
• DICOM/HL7
• Linux (Embedded, Sys Admin)
• Cloud (Google Cloud Platform)
• CI/CD (Pipelines)
• Unit/integration testing

• Managed/maintained production instances of IIS/SQL Server for many high-volume sites (coleman.com, rawlings.com).
• Managed a prescriptive framework written in C# .NET 4.0 used to accelerate and model application development according to industry best practices.
• Managed an internal automated NuGet feed (using TFS Build) for delivering updates.
• Database design and development. Managing indexes/performance. Troubleshooting with SQL Profiler.
• Created a process to managing SQL Server Database Projects (SSDT) so that framework libraries can be distributed with matching .dacpac files for client schema updating/generating. The process also included automated deployments of database schema and projects from TFS builds for Continuous Integration and validation of the build.
• Wrote and managed C# TFS Build Activity that creates and deploys multiple NuGet packages.
• Implemented an enterprise WCF Service Host Factory that uses IoC (Dependency Injection) to resolve contracts for runtime composability.
• Created WCF Services using REST/JSON for use on client side widgets.
• Created an MVC3/jQuery eCommerce UI foundation for eCommerce websites. Delivered to projects in a .zip file delivered by a VirtualPathProvider for easy updating and ensuring stability. Added support for overriding at every level (css/js/view) for client specific adjustments using a MVC ViewEngine and a client-side dependency management framework (Cassette).
• Implemented/created a jQuery plugin in ASP.NET MVC3 to enable extensible keyboard navigation with 100% client-side interaction from the point of entry.
• Designed enterprise N-tier framework to be reused by multiple enterprise clients (Coleman, Nuk, Rawlings).
• Designed/developed software for medical equipment for capturing and recording pictures and videos using MSMQ/NServiceBus/SignalR to send messages between the website and hardware.

Technologies used:

• .NET
• ASP.NET MVC
• SQL Server
• TFS
• Microsoft Test Manager
• Microsoft Commerce Server
• Windows Server 2008/2012
• Microsoft BizTalk

• Re-wrote nopCommerce from WebForms to ASP.NET MVC. Contributed it back to nopCommerce for the V3+ release.
• Design and develop custom solutions from cms to e-commerce using the appropriate technologies.
• Created a Lucene.NET implementation for faceted searching in eCommerce solutions (nopCommerce).
• Wrote and sold plugins and themes for nopCommerce.
• Wrote a CMS integration for nopCommerce to bring advanced CMS technologies to an eCommerce driven website.

• Managing catalog and orders (25,000 products) using MSMQ to handle product/inventory updates.
• Integration into 3rd party websites for price comparison and analytics.
• Managing web server (Windows Server 2008 R2) and database for high-uptime and high-load.