Giles Knap

Backend Engineer

https://talent.gravityer.com/giles-knap

Developer for Beamline Controls at the U.K. Synchrotron. @DiamondLightSource

DiamondLightSource

Key Strengths

Extensive personal project experience in Python, Docker, and Shell scripting, indicating strong practical skills.
Demonstrated interest in infrastructure as code (IaC) and Kubernetes (k3s-minecraft, tpi-k3s-ansible, IaC-at-home).
Experience with backend development in a professional setting at DiamondLightSource.
Proficiency in Python, a common language for backend development and scripting.

Cultural & Operational Fit

Cultural Fit Analysis

The candidate's extensive personal projects, particularly those involving home lab setups and open-source contributions, suggest a proactive and self-driven individual. However, the lack of diverse team-based projects or explicit collaboration experience makes it difficult to fully assess cultural fit. The projects are heavily focused on infrastructure and scripting, which aligns with a backend role, but the breadth of application domains is limited.

Soft Skills & Operational Fit

Insufficient data to assess soft skills or operational fit. No psychometric test results or interview feedback provided.

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Projects

tpi-k3s-ansible

October 6, 2024 – Present

Infrastructure as code

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zsa-voyager-vscode

December 17, 2023 – May 12, 2024

Ideas for going without a mouse in vscode

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pico-xmas2

December 9, 2023 – December 23, 2025

a project to use all of the PiHut Let it Glow 2023 XMas Advent calendar components at the same tiime.

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pico-xmas

December 2, 2022 – December 30, 2023

Projects for the RaspberryPi Pico from the XMas Advent Calendar

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maaspower

February 16, 2022 – January 13, 2025

Provide MAAS power control via webhooks for various remote control power switches.

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IaC-at-home

February 7, 2022 – October 6, 2024

Documentation and configuration for my attempt to bootstrap configure my home cluster from a github repo

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mciwb

October 24, 2021 – Present

Minecraft Interactive world builder

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k3s-minecraft

April 24, 2021 – March 29, 2025

Minecraft servers managed in a lightweight Kubernetes cluster

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T-BOTS

June 7, 2018 – May 12, 2024

Software for controlling and analysing T-Bots (Balancing robots)

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gphotos-sync

July 28, 2017 – Present

Google Photos and Albums backup with Google Photos Library API

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Key Strengths

Extensive personal project experience in Python, Docker, and Shell scripting, indicating strong practical skills.
Demonstrated interest in infrastructure as code (IaC) and Kubernetes (k3s-minecraft, tpi-k3s-ansible, IaC-at-home).
Experience with backend development in a professional setting at DiamondLightSource.
Proficiency in Python, a common language for backend development and scripting.

Cultural & Operational Fit

Cultural Fit Analysis

Soft Skills & Operational Fit

Insufficient data to assess soft skills or operational fit. No psychometric test results or interview feedback provided.

Giles Knap

Key Strengths

Cultural & Operational Fit

Top Skills

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Experience

Projects

Key Strengths

Cultural & Operational Fit