Lucas Adkins
Partner · Founder · Sr. Engineer
No certs to frame. Self-taught, old-school. The trenches did the teaching.
I co-founded Knight in 2006 because the MSP world had stopped feeling like engineering and started feeling like sales theater. Jeff and I built the company we wanted to work at: small, technical, accountable. Brian came on board a few years later and made partner in 2016.
I've been doing this since grade school, back when the first network I touched was a hub, not a switch. Self-taught the whole way: break things, fix them, write down what worked. That's still how I run a project. Slow enough to be right, fast enough to be useful.
The same instinct shows up at home. I do most of my own construction work, mostly woodworking. The kind of weekend builds where you measure five times and cut twice anyway. Clean overlap with engineering: build it properly the first time, document it, and let the next person feel the care.
In order: my family, my friends, the work, and the gaming rig I tell myself I'll use less this month. My kid's almost a teenager, which I'm told is humbling and about to get more so.
If you're a small business that doesn't want to be a ticket number, we should talk.
Outside of work: woodworking, family time, and a Steam library that should embarrass me by now.
