Carl Dunham
Founding Engineer at Keycard Labs
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolCarl Dunham is a founding engineer and seasoned software leader with 12+ years building large-scale, resilient systems across startups and enterprise teams. He led major re-architectures from Python monoliths to federated Go microservices at Reddit and Neustar, improving scalability, availability, and developer velocity across multi-cloud environments. As a director at Neustar he managed and mentored engineering teams to deliver high-scale DDoS defense and IoT identity platforms, blending security-conscious design with pragmatic product delivery. He has repeatedly operated at the intersection of architecture and hands-on implementation, shipping tooling and platform features in Go, Python, TypeScript, React, GraphQL, and Kubernetes. Based in San Francisco, Carl combines founder-level product instincts from ventures like The Search Agency with deep systems experience, often focusing on maintainability and cross-team collaboration that accelerates long-term impact. An unusual through-line in his career is repeatedly modernizing legacy stacks into cloud-native architectures while preserving operational reliability.
13 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Computer Science, Bachelor's Computer Science at Brown UniversityMBA, MBA at University of Rhode Island
Github Skills (200)
programming-language10
parser10
lexer10
python10
http10
code-generation10
linter10
introspection10
rest-api10
printing10
middleware10
django10
sarama10
validation10
codegen10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
carldunham/air-quality-monitor
Dec 2018 - Jul 2021
Measure local air quality, display values from sensor and public sources
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 7 months
air-qualityhome-assistantairsensormeasure
carldunham/gqlgen
Oct 2019 - Feb 2025
go generate based graphql server library
Contributions:67 pushes, 30 branches in 5 years 5 months
golanggo-generategraphql-servergraphqlserver-library
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