John Knapp

Experience

StratRocket

Founder, CTO 2024 - Present (over 2 years)

Bridging the gap between planning and execution with AI-powered strategy alignment tools

Procurement Sciences

Cofounder and CTO 2022 - 2023 (11 months)

Pioneered the use of AI in government contracting to help our customers win more bids. Raised $12MM A

Founder

StratRocket

Employee

Procurement Sciences

Projects

Competency Insight Platform

Revolutionary approach to fix hiring.

Concept, vision, branding, design, validation, development, architecture · Team leadership, cloud architect, lead engineer

The SkillBank… · More

With Christopher Riley, Abdelhay Najjar, Nicolas Robbe

SkillBank Competency Insight Platform

Entreprise SaaS for HR professionals

Concept, vision, branding, design, validation, development, architecture, PostgreSQL, Javascript, Redis · Helping your company make better talent… · More

Startup Alliance - Essential tools and resources helping committed entrepreneurs connect, overcome challenges and win.

Collaboration toolbox for committed entrepreneurs

Founder. Creative Vision. Lead developer. · I built it from the ground up.

Startup Alliance is a collaboration toolbox where global… · More

With Nina Robin

SkillBank Job Discovery App

Inspiring job ideas for workers in transition

Concept, vision, branding, design, validation, development, architecture, Ruby, PostgreSQL, Javascript · Inventory your competencies then discover… · More

About

Achievements

Currently full-time:
- Working on StratRocket

Other achievements:
- Built an Augmented Reality location awareness and content distribution API.
- Invented & built distributed content syndication platform and received 3 patents.
- Invented & led the team to build conversational advertising technology which drove 5x lift in all KPIs.

My superpower:
- I love to help entrepreneurs take action to turn ideas into intuitive applications customers will pay for.

I've got years of experience gathering market requirements, designing, developing and delivering intuitive and effective software products as well as assembling and leading development, UX/UI and QA teams. My experience also includes SW architecture, data models, system design, HA and scaling.

Describe the most impressive thing you've done.

Skills

Ruby Redis Intellectual Property Strategy Business Strategy Application / Platform Architecture Software Development Software Architecture SaaS User Experience Design Product Development PostgreSQL Amazon Web Services Lean Startups Product Management Back-End Development Frontend Development Full Stack Development Web Development Machine Learning Python Natural Language Processing HTML CSS Javascript Agile Agile Software Development Apple Business Plan Business Strategies Data Modeling Fault Tolerance Git Heroku Leadership Management Recruiting Ruby on Rails Software System Design Test WEB Web Applications Web Technologies Augmented Reality Elixir Creative Writing Technical Writing Technical documentation Artificial Intelligence Data Analysis

Locations

San Mateo Seattle Vancouver New York City

Education

Q&A

What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?

Badass, Making Users Awesome - Kathy Sierra

What's your favorite non-business book?

Drag Device Database.

If money were not an issue, what would you be doing right now?

Mentoring entrepreneurs.

What's the best way for people to get in touch with you?

LinkedIn or Email

What's the most creative thing you've ever done?

Repaired the head of my mainsail en route from Honolulu to British Columbia, 1000 miles from land.

John Knapp

Startup whisperer, software architect, inventor, writer, musician, photographer, sailor & man of integrity.