Summary
Carl Dea is a seasoned full-stack developer with over two decades of hands-on experience designing, scaling, and shipping complex enterprise and mission-critical systems across healthcare, defense, and cloud platforms. He combines deep Java/JVM performance expertise with modern cloud-native practices and proficiency in Kotlin, Python, and TypeScript to deliver data-intensive solutions—recently leading the IKM healthcare interoperability platform and the Komet knowledge-graph modeling app at Deloitte. Carl has a strong track record in developer advocacy and open-source engagement, having driven performance tuning and community adoption for Azul while mentoring engineering teams. His background spans geospatial telemetry, high-performance computing, and real-time signal systems, giving him a rare blend of low-latency systems know-how and pragmatic API/UI design. Interested in graph data, Kafka, gRPC, GIS, ML/AI, and mobile/IoT, he seeks collaborative, remote-friendly teams that value both technical excellence and work-life balance. An overlooked strength is his history of modernizing legacy architectures into scalable, observable platforms across highly regulated domains.
14 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
UMBC