Angela Knight

S

Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft | ex-Snowflake

Microsoft
Atlanta, GA · ET (UTC-5)
5+ years experience
Yale University
English
Collaborating
Messaging unavailable

Overview

Currently at Microsoft, where I work on real-time systems. Cut p99 latency on the real-time services from 503ms to 157ms. Most at home with Go and Erlang/OTP. I teach a weekend class on Go.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Collaborators for my side project
  • Questions about real-time systems
  • Second opinions on Elixir decisions
  • Working sessions on Redis
Please don't message about
  • Requests to fix your code for free
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches

Usually replies within a day

Skills
Erlang/OTPGoRedisWebSocketslow-latency systemsElixir
CollaboratingLooking to collaborate
closes in 3 months

Looking for collaborators on an open-source Elixir toolkit

Project
An open-source Elixir toolkit
Skills needed
low-latency systems, Data
Time commitment
A few hours a week
Outcome
Open-source release

Weekends only. Async-first.

Atlanta, GAelixirerlang/otpwebsockets
Open

Experience

  1. Senior Software Engineer
    Sep 2024 - Present
    Microsoft · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
    • Reduced cloud spend on real-time by 27% in two quarters.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 44 minutes to under 5.
  2. Software Engineer
    Nov 2021 - Sep 2024
    Snowflake · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
    • Reduced cloud spend on real-time by 31% in two quarters.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 32 minutes to under 3.

References

No references yet.

Education

  1. Yale University
    BA, Computer Science
    2016 - 2020

Details

Compensation expectations
What they are targeting for their next role.
Visible to connections
Direct contact details
Direct email and a scheduling link.
Visible to connections

Trusted Partners

Sponsored