# David Knight

> Accountable & Adaptable Mobile Lead | Inspiring Growth | Crafting Sleek Apps for iOS & Android

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/davidknight

I'm on a mission to build impactful mobile experiences that make a difference. From pioneering Swift at Adobe to boosting Slack's Android performance under the hood, I love tackling tough challenges with a mix of tech smarts and collaborative spirit.  I embrace collaborative problem-solving, mentoring budding minds, and pushing boundaries alongside passionate teams. Let's connect and build something cool!

Key Skills:
* React Native (Typescript)
* Android (Kotlin, Java)
* iOS (Swift, Objective-C)
* Web & Hybrid App Development
* Leadership & Mentorship
* Performance Optimization
* CI/CD
* Agile Methodologies

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Flow
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Principal Software Engineer II, Architect @ Bluescape
Jan 2020 – Jan 2024 | Redwood City, California, United States
- As Lead architect of the React Native Bluescape Mobile App, proposed and executed a strategic shift to a hybrid React Native/Webview app. Enabled feature parity with other platforms, performance improvements and a 5x increase in usage.
- Implemented key app components in Typescript and React Native, including navigation, deep-linking, and support for Webview code to invoke and await on async methods in the React-Native app.
- Wrote system architecture documents, including for message passing between Webview and React-Native, AV conferencing support, notifications, and 3rd party IDP support for sign-up/sign-in.
- Mentored junior engineers, and established best practices for coding, testing, releasing, git/branching, etc.

### Staff Software Engineer, Mobile @ Slack
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California
- Using Kotlin and RxJava, designed and implemented repositories to provide asynchronous read-access by lazy-loading channels and usergroups. Improved the Android app P95 load time by over 1000%.
- Mentored a junior developer who achieved a promotion, and an intern who received and accepted a full time offer.
- Implemented key parts of a cross platform library using modern C++, including a robust memory-efficient Json parsing library using generics.

### Senior Computer Scientist/Lead, Mobile @ Adobe
Jan 2005 – Jan 2016 | San Jose, CA
2015-16:
- Lead developer on v1.0 Camera module for iOS (iPad and iPhone), implementing code primarily in Swift, interoperating with Objective-C.
- Modular architecture, and flexible API for easily integrating into other apps, or thinly wrapping as a standalone Camera App.
- Responsible for overall architecture/design of code, API design, implementing features, and guiding other developers in the team. 
- Extensive use of GCD for responsive UI, concurrency and resource access serialization, MVC, Auto Layout in Storyboard and code as appropriate.
- Provided guidance to Product Management on balancing schedule, quality and robustness, new features.
- Negotiated API design with customer teams, for ease of use and maximum flexibility.
- Guided team to a successful v1.0 launch and set the path for subsequent frequent releases.
- Owned build automation with Jenkins, building and signing IPA with bash. Distribution via HockeyApp and Apple Testflight beta.

2014:
- Lead developer on v1.0 Social Learning Application for iPad, implementing code in Objective-C.
- Responsible for whole Application Architecture - implementing features including UI, login/session persistence, server communication via JSON/REST, and utilizing MVC, UIKit.
- Tools: XCode, with optimization through Instruments, and unit tests through XCTest & Kiwi. SCM through git with gitflow branching model. Cocoapods, Restkit, AFNetworking.

Past projects:
- Developed user facing features for Adobe Connect mobile client application for Andriod and iOS.
- Implemented and optimized GPU render mode for Flash Runtime product for iOS and Android platforms. Gave educational session on writing optimized code for GPU render mode at MAX conference.
- Developed Adobe AIR for iOS, Android, Windows and Mac, with a focus on Security.
- Enhanced audio mixing support on Flashlite 3.0.
- Led Symbian port of Flashlite 2.0 and acted as technical contact with Nokia.

### Senior Technical Consultant @ Symbian
Jan 2003 – Jan 2005 | Redwood Shores, CA

### Software Engineer / Business Development @ Cellsoft, Inc
Jan 2001 – Jan 2003 | Pleasanton, CA

### Technical Consultant @ Symbian, Ltd. / Symbian, Inc.
Jan 2000 – Jan 2001 | Redwood Shores, CA

### Software Engineer @ Symbian, Ltd. / Symbian, Inc.
Jan 1998 – Jan 2000


## Education
### BA in Physics
University of Oxford

### University of Oxford


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/david-knight-7571bb1

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Last updated: 2026-04-01