# Daniel Knightly

> Principal Software Engineer at Roblox | Ex Twitter

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/danielknightly

A seasoned software engineer experienced with architecture, development and deployment of applications in the Java enterprise.  I love solving technical problems and writing clean code that’s built to last.

Specialties:  Scalable service oriented software, design for test and continuous integration, appraising new technologies, refactoring legacy code, agile development, and seeing projects through to completion.

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ Roblox
Jan 2023 – Present | San Mateo, California, United States
Service Reliability Team - Migrate Client based resiliency mechanisms to the new Service Mesh. Involved creating a configuration distribution system for a multi cluster Istio based service mesh.

### Staff Software Engineer @ Twitter
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022
Compute Platform Team:  Responsible for developing Twitters Continuous Delivery engine which enables teams to orchestrate their software deploys.  A highlight was extending the functionality of this deploy orchestration tool to support both legacy Aurora/Mesos clusters and Kubernetes clusters in Twitter's private cloud and other vendor's public clouds.  This enabled service owners to easily deploy their software to any of Twitter's clusters with only a simple configuration change and without having to understand the details of the underlying scheduling APIs.

### Staff Software Engineer @ Twitter
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Cortex Team (Machine Learning):  Created a Machine Learning platform to enable all teams to train Deepnet Models in the cloud, and then Service the trained models.  Designed and implemented the Service side and shepherded its use in production for 4 different teams at Twitter.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Twitter
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco
Coordination Team: 
Configbus: Created a system to deploy service configuration throughout Twitter's Datacenters.
Helped manage Twitter's Zookeeper clusters:  
   * fixing bugs in the core server and client code, writing extensions to provide better instrumentation for metrics, and writing scala recipes on top of the client code.

### Principal Software Engineer @ Tvworks / Comcast Video Services
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Mill Valley, Ca
Lead Engineer developing platform software to power new applications and services on Comcast's cable network. Manage the various phases of development including requirements, architecture, design, project schedules, testing and deployment of Java services using agile development practices.

### Senior Software Engineer @ TVWorks
Jan 2004 – Jan 2013
Design and implement back end services to support Comcast's Video products.

### Software Engineer @ TechTV
Jan 2000 – Jan 2004 | San Francisco, CA
Member of a team of three engineers responsible for the design and maintenance of the back end systems and applications which drive TechTV’s profitable website, serving over two million page views per day and generating over $3 million in advertising revenue.

### Software Engineer @ More.Com
Jan 2000 – Jan 2000 | San Francisco, CA
Development of clean usable web-based interfaces to an Oracle Database that allowed our staff to run the online health and beauty store, processing over 15,000 secure transactions a day.

### IC Design Engineer @ Analog Devices
Jan 1997 – Jan 1999 | Vancouver, WA
Designed embedded synchronous memories for DSP chips. Led a team of layout designers to implement my designs.

### IC Design Engineer @ Motorola
Jan 1994 – Jan 1997 | Austin, TX
Led a team of engineers and layout designers to develop asynchronous FSRAMs from customer specifications to manufacturing.
In addition to the tasks performed at Analog Devices:


## Education
### MSEE in Electrical Engineering
University of Michigan

### BSEE in Electrical Engineering and Engineering Physics
Tufts University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/daniel-knightly-9a828b

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Last updated: 2026-04-12