Carl Tashian
Offroad Engineer at smallstep
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolCarl Tashian is an Offroad Engineer based in San Francisco with 16 years of hands-on product and infrastructure experience and more than two decades in the startup ecosystem. He combines deep PKI and infrastructure-security expertise with developer advocacy, technical writing, and open source stewardship—owning documentation and content that has driven millions of views and multiple #1 Hacker News posts for Smallstep. A former founder and early Zipcar engineer, he’s comfortable from firmware to full-stack web apps and from building teams to shaping product roadmaps. Carl introduced Smallstep to the homelab community, turning an enthusiast segment into a meaningful customer channel and feeding those learnings back into engineering priorities. He also coaches engineering leaders and founders, translating technical depth into better leadership and organizational practice. Known for translating arcane security topics into practical guides, he blends entrepreneurial grit with an educator’s instinct.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Engineering, BS, Computer Engineering at Case Western Reserve University
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