About

KnoxDevs is a registered non-profit 501(c)(3) whose sole mission is to foster a healthy software developer community in Knoxville, TN.

Code of Conduct

Our Pledge

KnoxDevs is dedicated to providing an outstanding experience, to increase learning opportunities for all our members, regardless of age, body size, disability, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, level of experience, nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, sexual identity, or sexual orientation.

We do not tolerate harassment by members or of members in any form, and we would like to take this opportunity to remind all members that KnoxDevs was founded on: passionate, but respectful dialog between our members, for our members. Please treat both your fellow members and non-members with respect!

Harassment¹ is not appropriate for any venue. Group members violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the group, at the discretion of the group organizers.

Members must remember that KnoxDevs organizers and volunteers are not trained conflict resolution specialists, nor are they security or law enforcement. KnoxDevs organizers and volunteers will immediately escalate issues around safety, violence, or similar situations to the Knoxville Police Department.

For the protection of members, our organization, and the larger community, KnoxDevs will never put its organizers or volunteers in the position of trying to assess whether or not an incident merits reporting. If there is any doubt, we will report incidents to the Knoxville Police Department immediately.

Hiring

KnoxDevs is not a marketplace. You may not solicit members who you do not personally know in direct messages (“DMs”) for potential contract/hiring purposes. We have a hiring channel for the explicit purpose to help people in the Knoxville, TN region find local people to hire and for local people to get hired. Hiring posts outside of this channel should be avoided, but we’ll guide you to the hiring channel in those instances. Companies located outside of the Knoxville, TN region (legally defined as the Knoxville Metropolitan Statistical Area) will not be permitted to post in our hiring channel; however, we will allow instances where the post is for a remote position and the company currently employs members based in the Knoxville, TN region.

Incident Resolution

Members should follow the golden rule: “One should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself.” Treat others, both members and non-members, with respect. Simple disagreements should be resolved between the individuals concerned. Harassment or more serious issues should be escalated to a KnoxDevs organizer. That organizer will immediately contact a KnoxDevs Board member who has the responsibility to assist in resolution.

1: Examples include offensive comments, verbal threats or demands, sexualized images in public spaces, intimidation, stalking, harassing photography or recording, sustained disruption of sessions or events, unwelcome physical contact or sexual attention, and the advocating or encouragement of any of the above behavior.

Organizers

Arjun Bery

My passion has always lived in two fields: coding programs and building communities. Whether it was my work as a developer for the University of Tennessee Housing department or it is my current occupation as a developer for Malibu Boats, I always strive to ensure that I work with groups that build bonds between families, friends, or neighbors.

Brant Boehmann

KnoxJava Organizer. Lead Software Engineer @DiscoveryIncTV

Adrian Carr

Adrian is a software developer by trade, with a strong interest in startups, and lean/agile processes. From the start, his specialty has been bridging the gap between business ideas and implementing those ideas through technology and software.

Wade Chandler

KnoxJava Organizer. Software Engineer, Technologist, Pepper Lover, and Apache NetBeans (Incubating) Contributor

Andy Cowell

Andy Cowell has over twenty years of systems engineering experience in a variety of environments. Currently, he works for Discovery, Inc., as the manager of the Application Engineering and Automation group in Cloud Infrastructure.

Emily Estes

Emily is a freelance software developer and mentor living in Knoxville, TN. She is currently working on Software as a Service web applications, as well as developer tooling and programming language techniques. She is also an organizer for the @FunctionalKnox user group and the Lambda Squared conference.

Arash Farsi

Arash is a Systems Analyst at Discovery, currently serving his team as Scrum Master. He gets a kick out of helping his team build better software and continuously deliver valuable increments of their products. His desire is for Agile Knoxville to be a community forum where professionals can exchange information and experiences and encourage the adoption of Agile ideas and practices at their workplaces.

Christine Jones

Senior Software Engineer for Discovery, Inc and volunteer conference organizer.

Cody Lambert

Technical leader with a broad range of experience and a passion for working with smart people to make good software. Co-founder of KnoxDevs.

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Alex Pawlowski

Alex Pawlowski is a graduate student at the University of Tennessee, doing research in metal additive manufacturing at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He is the Secretary for KnoxDevs, and handles minutes for board meetings, and the upkeep of this very website.

Jamie Phillips

Jamie Phillips is a Software Engineer with over 11 years of experience. All that experience has been in .NET and related technologies. Over the last several years he has been focused on moving applications to the cloud.

Arlene Rose

Data Visualization Developer at Discovery and volunteer organizer for Knoxville Women in Technology

Joshua Rosenberg

Joshua Rosenberg is an Assistant Professor of STEM Education at the University of Tennessee. His research focuses on data science education (teaching and learning data science) and the application of data science methods to the study of educational systems, teaching, and learning.

Bobby Showalter

Hi, I'm Bobby. By day, I work for Intelliquip, Inc. as a User Experience Engineer. By night, I do web design for orange daisy. I'm a co-founding member of Knox_UX, and work with dozens of international companies in the fluid dynamics industry to solve their UI/X problems.

Dennis Stepp

Dennis Stepp is a software engineer at Lirio in Knoxville, TN. He is also a game/web developer with Unibear Studio, Earl Park Fall Festival Foundation, and Bluegrassjam.org. Interests include DevOps, JAMstack, and software architecture. He also collects retro PC/console games, and dabbles in gardening and wood working. He has a passion for bluegrass music, craft beer, and ice hockey.

Panagiotis Tzerefos

Cloud Solutions Engineer at Cigna

Michael Wehrle

Cloud Solutions Architect at Cigna

Gavin Wiggins

Organizer of the Knoxville CocoaHeads and KnoxPy groups.

Katie Young

Katie is a lead quality assurance analyst and business analyst. She created the KnoxQA meetup with the intention of bringing the Knoxville quality assurance community together to discuss their trials and triumphs in testing, and to drink a lot of good beer in the process.