In light of recent events, please find an important link from a recent keynote I gave here: The Race of Life (white privilege) which speaks to my heart and intent to make our industry a welcoming and supportive place for every person. The full slide deck can be found on my GitHub.
I’m Aimee Knight, a former figure skater and software architect. In 2014 I decided to go all out, and spent six months as a student in the fourth cohort of the Nashville Software School where I focused on JavaScript, Node.js, and Ruby on Rails.
Coming from a background in collegiate sports I’m highly driven. After my first degree, I spent a lot of time working with developers and in late 2012 my career path began to diverge. When a developer for my employer’s site handed off their CMS to me saying “don’t touch anything outside of this” my fate was sealed. My curiosity, coupled with increasing frustrations from the surmounting code changes we were always needing, led me on a path of no return. I started to stay up really late so I could work on the site while (hopefully) no one was looking. Within a few weeks I was hooked.
Outside of work, I’m a Google Developer Expert for Web Technologies focused on performance, an Organizer for DevOpsDays Nashville, and a panelist on the JavaScript Jabber podcast. Before that I was a panelist on the Angular Air podcasts, volunteer at Baltimore NodeSchool and co-organizer for CharmCityJS. I’m a type A personality, and I’m not at peace, unless I have a set of challenges in front of me. As a former bootcamper, I also really enjoy mentoring current students and other junior developers.
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
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