Cody Knapp Email & Phone Number

Columbus, OH, US

• Acted as a highly technical member of the executive team helping to plan product roadmaps, hiring cadence, and deliver code to multiple projects
• Pioneered company's engineering team growth from 1 to 8, leading to 6 high-quality initiatives in 3 years
• Evaluated business needs and implemented solutions – build vs buy + appropriate architecture for builds
• Designed, built, deployed, and maintained high traffic sweepstakes application (3k+ concurrent users) using TypeScript / Node / React deployed in AWS and utilizing DynamoDB
• Enhanced short-term rental market by achieving 15% operational efficiency, 5% customer retention, and 5% review score improvements
• Built multiple business platforms with React front ends powered by Shopify to handle transactions and PCI data

Columbus, OH

Accenture acquired Pillar Technology as part of its Industry X.0 initiative to redefine how clients' ideas become reality. Relevant experience is grouped into the Pillar Technology listing.

Columbus, Ohio Area

• I take great joy in helping clients solve their business problems as quickly as possible while also helping everyone around me to succeed. Helping others grow is something I found very fulfilling during my tenure with.
• Mentored client companies and teams on agile software delivery and best practices using a variety of technologies including Java, Scala, TypeScript, and C#
• Tech lead for multiple cross functional teams ranging in size from 4 to 20
• Mentored multiple client engineers into tech lead roles
• Became an expert on a client’s proprietary data processing and retrieval technology utilizing Scala/Spark and Java. Reduced the application’s input data processing time from 5 hours to 25 minutes
• Worked to reverse engineer functionality in client systems when no expertise from the client was available (forgotten subsystems or undocumented deliverables from other companies)

Columbus, OH

• Led Perl to Java software migration, boosting system efficiency by 20% and expanding maintainer candidates
• Initiated logging systems and run books, resulting in a 50% reduction in issue triage time for improved operational efficiency
• Leveraged system data expertise to enhance development team efficiency by 15%, driving impactful results
• Guided an 8-member team to early delivery of a vital financial product, meeting project deadlines with precision
• Oversaw initiative refining customer account creation, slashing erroneous account creation by 10%

• Created Java software solutions to meet various needs of a nationwide logistics company.
• Created software to automate and track calls made by an auto-dialer to notify customers of upcoming deliveries, reducing processing time by 90%
• Created software to track claims against deliveries that would allow looking up call results and expedite claim handling processes
• Set up and maintained MS SQL Databases.
• Set up and maintained MS SQL Server Reporting Services.
• Limited work with Windows Server / Active Directory.