# Andrew McKnight

> [Computer, Software] ⨯ [Scientist, Engineer]

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/andrewmcknight

Make code faster.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Sentry (sentry.io)
Jan 2022 – Present
Sentry acquires Specto, and I keep on profilin' iOS/macOS apps 🧐 Including more general work on the sentry-cocoa SDK.

### iOS Developer @ Specto Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021
Profiling iOS/macOS apps. ObjC++ SDK built with Bazel (including a custom Xcode project generator using XcodeGen/Jinja before rules_xcodeproj was a thing).

### Owner @ The Hive - Fairbanks Coworking
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Fairbanks, AK
Sold the biz!

### Senior Software Engineer @ Rightpoint
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
1 client project, NDA

### Proprietor and Developer @ Two Ring Software
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019
- 3 month contract with 121nexus to help release an update to their 121Scan iOS app and an enterprise app for a customer, including new feature development, bug fixes and integration of a new SDK extracted from previously in-application logic.
- Continued maintenance of existing iOS apps for Insight Therapeutics, and consulting and prototyping a new project.
- 3 month contract with Rightpoint (project NDA) parlayed into a full-time role

### iOS Developer @ Layer
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
- Added telemetry instrumentation in Core SDK.
- Improved automation for development environment that utilized 4 separate repositories, some open- and some closed-source.
- Helped implement CircleCi testing and deployment of build artifacts.
- Helped switch over Core SDK from SPDY to Websockets.

### Software Engineer @ Twitter
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
- Added Crashlytics support for TV and BitCode. Evaluated support for Watch.
- Implemented Crashlytics delivery via CocoaPods.
- R&D for Crash Insights feature, a solution prediction service for crash reports identified using pattern matching across the entire dataset and gleaned from Apple technical documentation and community discussion.
- Assisted migrating portions of the main crash processing pipeline in Heron, creating and tuning new services and streaming topologies.
- MapReduce jobs using Cascading and Scalding.
- Analytics reporting using Vertica and Zeppelin, gathered from a React+GraphQL frontend.

- Pager duty rotation backend maintenance and uptime (1 week every 5-7 weeks).
- Customer interviews for multiple new features and enhancements.
- New hire interviewing.
- Brown bag lunch tech presentations.
- Workshops for NeighborNest (fullstack) and GirlsWhoCode (iOS).
- Helped organize, host and present the inaugural Boston Algorithms meetup sponsored by Twitter at their Boston HQ, delivering the theoretical portion of a talk on HyperLogLog.

### iOS Developer @ Raizlabs
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | boston, massachusetts

### Lab Instructor @ Old Dominion University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
-Online delivery of CS 333: Problem solving and programming in C++
-Recitation/lab instructor for CS 150/250: Introduction to programming 
-Website maintenance, grading, and general student guidance

### Mobile Application Developer @ Old Dominion University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
Developed majority of iOS version of a mobile social networking application contracted to the university from a 3rd party.
-XCode with integrated remote SVN repository usage
-Supervised two international interns
-Post-employment consultations

### .NET Developer @ Intergraph
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
Intern Developer/Tester.
-Large software project: 40+ million lines of code
-Visual Basic/C++/C# .NET development
-Microsoft Visual Studio and TFS
-Microsoft SQL development and server administration
-Automated GUI test development using HP QuickTest Professional
-Automated framework testing using in-house development and 3rd party suites such as Coverity
-Software issue tracking
-Version one software planning suite
-Continuous integration system


## Education
### Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Computer Science
Old Dominion University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013

### Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Computer Science
Old Dominion University
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012

### Associate of Science (A.S.) in Computer Science
PVCC Workforce Services
Jan 2008 – Jan 2009

### Advanced Diploma
Hylton
Jan 2001 – Jan 2003


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/andrewrmcknight
- Website: http://armcknight.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-22