Paul Knopf

• Led several teams and initiatives across AI, infrastructure, and platform engineering.
• Azure AI Foundry deployment — pool of models behind a single load-balanced endpoint (OpenAI API).
• LangChain/Databricks for patient/account summaries and reports.
• Designed and rolled out an agent-to-agent protocol for a distributed pool of specialized agents.
  • Temporal for long-running/durable sessions with traceability and monitoring.
  • Orchestrator agent that discovers sub-agents and their tools/schemas.
  • Base ASP.NET libraries for teams to expose high-fidelity API endpoints as discoverable tools.
• Five9 chat-bot for customer call-ins, built on the same agent-to-agent framework.
• Curated shared Claude Code skills to enforce consistent usage of languages and tools (.NET, JS, Terraform).
• Claude agent that monitors Application Insights (webhooks) for exceptions and auto-creates Azure DevOps issues — capturing stack traces, relevant logs, a breakdown of the exception, and possible fixes.
• Pipeline routines for running evaluations against LLM prompts to catch regressions and validate accuracy.
• Terraform modules for defining multi-region, multi-env resources.
  • APIM/WAF
  • Hub/Spoke
  • Team definitions for dedicated Azure Subscriptions and spokes (for hub).
• Rolled out Kubernetes clusters and established the process for teams to deploy, maintain, and monitor their workloads (Flux).
• Designed and rolled out a micro-frontend architecture, letting teams develop modules locally and deploy them into a single integrated client-side app.
• Designed and rolled out CQRS pattern — addressed upper performance limits of the existing architecture, resulting in dramatic performance gains and significant cost savings.
• Regular company-wide presentations on new technologies, best practices, and architecture.

Technologies used:

• Azure AI Foundry (OpenAI models)
• Claude Code
• .NET Core
• Microservices
• Dapper/OrmLite
• Kubernetes
• React/TypeScript
• Micro-frontends
• Temporal
• Azure DevOps
• Azure
• Terraform
• ElasticSearch
• Postgres
• Redis

• Designed and implemented next-gen prescriptive architecture for medical imaging software.
• Protobuf/gRPC microservice architecture with a focus on performance and stability (emphasis on Go).
• Coordinated with the firmware team to keep driver and software development in feature parity.
• ASP.NET/React multi-tenant application with on-site deployments and automated updates.
• Established usage of IDesign's "The Method" for system and project design.

Technologies used:

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

• Thought leader for a small embedded and web development team.
• Managed IT infrastructure: build agents, on-prem GitLab, project management tooling.
• Embedded .NET Core runtime in a native executable with V8 interop.
• iOS/Android development using Xamarin with ASP.NET WebAPIs for mobile consumption.
• DirectShow and GStreamer for encoding/decoding various video formats (H264/MP4).
• WPF and Qt/QtQuick digital recording software on embedded devices.
• C/C++ libraries for video capture and hospital network integration (DICOM/HL7).
• Custom embedded Linux distros with Yocto — brickless updates, read-only boot with tmpfs overlay for stability and resilience.
• Cross-compilation across vc++, gcc, MAKE, CMAKE, meson, and autotools.

Technologies used:

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

• Managed production IIS/SQL Server instances for several high-volume sites (coleman.com, rawlings.com).
• Maintained a prescriptive C# .NET 4.0 framework used to accelerate application development to industry best practices.
• Managed an internal automated NuGet feed (via TFS Build) for delivering framework updates.
• Database design, index/performance tuning, and troubleshooting with SQL Profiler.
• Built a process for managing SQL Server Database Projects (SSDT) — distributing .dacpac files alongside framework libraries for automated schema deployment and CI validation.
• Implemented an enterprise WCF Service Host Factory using IoC/DI for runtime composability.
• Built an MVC3/jQuery eCommerce UI foundation delivered as a VirtualPathProvider zip, with full CSS/JS/view override support via a custom ViewEngine and Cassette for client-side dependency management.
• Designed an N-tier enterprise framework reused across multiple clients (Coleman, Nuk, Rawlings).
• Built medical equipment software for image/video capture using MSMQ/NServiceBus/SignalR for hardware-to-web messaging.

Technologies used:

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

• Rewrote nopCommerce from WebForms to ASP.NET MVC — contributed back for the V3+ release.
• Designed and developed custom CMS and eCommerce solutions.
• Built a Lucene.NET faceted search implementation for nopCommerce.
• Wrote and sold plugins and themes for nopCommerce.
• Built a CMS integration for nopCommerce to bring advanced content management to eCommerce sites.

• Managed a catalog of 25,000 products using MSMQ for inventory and order updates.
• Integrated with third-party sites for price comparison and analytics.
• Managed web server (Windows Server 2008 R2) and database for high-uptime, high-load operation.