Brent Anderson
Software Engineer at KnockLabs
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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SeniorBrent Anderson is a founding software engineer with 14 years of experience building products and teams that scale from startups to Fortune 500 customers. Based in Minneapolis, he blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership—shipping consumer apps that have reached the App Store top 10 and designing event-driven architectures using Kafka, GraphQL, Elixir, TypeScript, Postgres, React Native, and Kubernetes. He’s co-founded product startups focused on family and education, led tech strategy for mid-market enterprises, and helped integrate complex SaaS ecosystems at Lambda School. Notably, some of his work has powered simulated space-flight experiences for K–12 students and he’s spoken publicly on tech policy, reflecting an uncommon mix of product, education, and policy engagement. Open to consulting, he prefers picking the right tool for the job and mentors teams to adopt pragmatic, production-ready practices.
14 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (200)
knock10
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jsonb10
db210
apollo10
javascript10
sql10
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mysql10
elixir10
mariadb10
typescript10
prisma10
oracle-db10
vscode10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
knocklabs/ex_aws
May 2022 - Dec 2025
A flexible, easy to use set of clients AWS APIs for Elixir
Contributions:4 reviews, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years 7 months
elixirawsclientsaws-clientsflexible
farpoint/meteor-winston-client
Jul 2013 - Aug 2014
Contributions:13 commits, 1 comment in 1 year 1 month
twitchstreamswinston
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