Daniel Knopf

About Me!

I'm a senior at Wesleyan University double majoring in Computer Science and English with a minor in Integrated Design, Engineering and Applied Science (IDEAS). I am the lead backend engineer for a student-created professor review app called OurCampus, a course assistant for several high level computer science classes, and a co-founder and executive producer of Wesleyan's hackathon, WesHack!

I have extensive experience with fullstack web development using a variety of different technologies, as well as dynamic webscraping and game development. Outside of coding, I'm a co-president of Wesleyan's bi-annual Rocky Horror Picture Show shadowcast, a former head opinion editor for Wesleyan Argus' opinion section, and a theater light designer, and in my free time I love to read sci-fi/fantasy novels, play video games, and listen to comedy podcasts.

Resume

Github

Python 90%

Webscraping 90%

Django 85%

JavaScript 75%

React.js 75%

Google Cloud Platform 75%

August 2022 to Future

Slack | Frontend Infrastructre Engineer

• More coming soon ;)
June 2021 to August 2021

Citrix | Software Engineering Intern

• Solved customer bug tickets by single-handedly identifying and fixing production-level issues in years-old code
• Participated on agile tasks including grooming, planning, story creation, etc
• Collaborated with staff engineers to refactor C#/.NET code to handle unit tests, facilitating easier future testing
• Rewrote onboarding documentation, helping new hires to onboard in half as much time as they did previously
September 2019 to Present

Wesleyan Computer Science Dept. | Teaching Assistant

• Communicated high level concepts (graph and tree algorithms, dynamic programming) to junior and senior students, and foundational concepts (recursion, mutability, etc) to first year students during help sessions
• Provided constructive feedback on weekly homeworks for upper level (COMP 312) and lower level (COMP 211, 112) classes of 40 students
August 2020 to April 2021

Wesleyan Privacy Tech Lab | Software Engineer

• Built a bootstrap and React landing page for the Global Privacy Control Group
May 2020 to August 2020

HC1 | Software Engineering Intern

• Created a Python Selenium web scraper that scrapes lab test data from competitor websites to improve HC1’s test matching by scraping information on 12,000 tests weekly
• Implemented Python multiprocessing pools for the scraper to cut down run-time from 8 hours to 2 hours
• Developed error handling and debugging on the web scraper to ensure that it would notify HC1 of any changes to the websites being scraped as well as any other potential errors
• Coded a long-running process killer using bash and Python to end unnecessary processes and free up RAM