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Christopher Knieste
Data engineer in Philadelphia
Data engineer based in Philadelphia building scalable data infrastructure for hockey data. Interested in remote or local opportunities.
Skills
Languages — Python, Rust, SQL, Bash
Data — PostgreSQL, dbt, schema design, ETL
Infrastructure — Linux, Docker, Git, NixOS
Projects
Basic hockey stats dashboard powered by dbt data marts over a Postgres warehouse filled by dry-scraper, with a Django frontend.
A config-driven data ingestion kernel in Rust that loads 24 hockey league datasets into Postgres — new sources are pure YAML and SQL, with no new Rust necessary. Built on tokio, sqlx, and reqwest.
Bare-metal no_std Rust firmware for the RP2040 that emulates a Game Boy Printer, exposing printed images as files on a USB drive. No allocator, no OS.
Work
PeopleCore, Inc. · 2018–2025
Senior Material Developer. Seven years writing technical documentation and training material for refinery and chemical industry clients.
Education
University of Delaware · 2013–2018
Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering;
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Bioinformatics concentration.