I’m Aimee Knight, a former figure skater turned Software Engineer. My tech journey began in 2012 when managing a company CMS sparked my curiosity to dive deeper. With over a decade in the software delivery lifecycle, I’ve worked across frontend/backend development, infrastructure architecture, DevOps, and site reliability.
One of the most significant achievements in my career came during my tenure as Senior Site Reliability Manager at Paramount Global, where I led critical Kubernetes cluster migrations and managed the multi-regional architecture that supported two Super Bowl broadcasts. My career spans startups in education, construction, and banking, including roles at Warner Brothers Discovery and NPM, Inc. (acquired by GitHub). I hold a Bachelor’s in Communication Management from UAB (Summa Cum Laude) and attended the Nashville Software School. I’m a Google Cloud Developer Expert focused on Application Modernization, hold my Google Cloud Professional Developer certification, am certified in Generative AI on Google Cloud, and an International Keynote Speaker.
In the past I helped organized DevOpsDays Nashville and CharmCityJS, was a panelist on the Adventures In Devops, JavaScript Jabber and Angular Air podcasts, and volunteered for Baltimore NodeSchool. As a former bootcamper with a competitive sports background, I enjoy mentoring students and junior developers. I’m available for mentorship and consulting, including volunteer opportunities for suitable projects. Let’s connect!
Interviews and Meetups:
- JavaScript Jabber: Careers for Junior Developers
- The Web Platform Podcast: Learning React
- CodeNewbie: From Skates To Code
- Get Up And Code: Figure Skating and Software Development With Aimee Knight
- AFTK: Aimee Knight’s Journey From Figure Skater to Software Engineer
- Team Treehouse Success Stories with Aimee Knight
- I Look Like An Engineer: Figure Skater Turns Software Engineer
- JavaScript Air: For the Beginners
- Nashville Women Programmers Q&A with Aimee Knight
- 6 Best Practices for Building a Developer Community
- Building Programmers with Aimee Knight
- Women in the tech industry in the portrait: Aimee Knight
- My JS Story with Aimee Knight
- Working with Junior Developers - SurviveJS Interview with Aimee Knight
- Chattanooga Area .NET User Group: Getting Comfortable Being Uncomfortable with Aimee Knight
- Nation JS 2016
- 2 Frugal Dudes: Listener Case Study with Aimee Knight
- State Local Government Developers Network Q&A
- Nash JS
- Complete Developer Podcast
- Fixate On Code
- Front End Happy Hour
- Shop Talk Show
- Microsoft Channel 9 Interview: Five Things Junior Developers Need to Know
- Changelog: When to use JavaScript over CSS
- Microsoft Channel 9 Interview: Five Things Developers Need to Know About CSS
- Modern Web Podcast: The state of CSS in 2018
- The Web Platform Podcast: CSS In-Depth
- JS Party: CSS in JS
- Franklin Developer Lunch and Learn
- Second Career Devs: From Figure Skater to Full Stack Developer
- IT Career Energizer
- Developer On Fire
- 6 Figure Dev: Pit of Success for JavaScript
- DevJourney Podcast: Discipline of Figure Skating to DevOps and Architecture
- 8 on K8s Interview
- How to Systematically Debug Your CSS Just Like You Would Your JavaScript
- Lift & Transform with Google Cloud VMware Engine & CDW
- Meeting Expectations Through Site Reliability Engineering
- Mastering SRE: Insights in Scale and at Capacity
Conference Talks:
- Angular Connect 2015
- Nodevember 2015
- JS Remote Conf 2016
- Nation JS 2016
- Revolution Conf 2016
- Codestock 2017
- Revolution Conf 2017
- Newbie Remote Conf 2017
- International JavaScript Conference 2017
- Nodevember Keynote 2017
- NG-BE 2017
- Improving Your Apps - Performance and Debugging Workshop 2018
- ngATL Conference 2018
- Lambda Squared 2018
- International JavaScript Conference 2018
- O’Reilly Fluent Conference 2018
- Southeast PHP 2018
- No Fluff Just Stuff
- Codestock Keynote 2019
- Prairie Dev Con 2019
- DevOpsDays 2019
- Code on the Beach Keynote 2019
- Music City Code 2019
- Future Sync Conference 2020
- JavaScript Remote Conference 2020
- Technology Roundtable: Breaking Into the IT Industry 2020
- Google Next 2025: Unlocking Cloud Potential for Innovation and Growth