Carl Yestrau
Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience at NVIDIA
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCarl Yestrau is a seasoned software engineer with 17 years of experience building large-scale front-end and cloud systems, currently shaping Groq’s cloud inference APIs and Batch API for cost-efficient, high-throughput AI workloads. He’s a founder and CEO of Crul, an embeddable API/web integration platform focused on vector embeddings and synthetic data, blending product instincts with low-footprint engineering. Carl’s career spans foundational frontend work at Splunk and Yahoo—where he led UI framework design, scaled a sprawling JavaScript platform, and managed cross-functional teams—to hands-on cloud engineering with Go, GCP, Next.js, and Vercel. Based in San Francisco, he pairs deep technical leadership with operational grit honed as a professional ski patroller, a role that underscores his calm under pressure and commitment to safety and reliability.
17 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Commerce Honours, Bachelor of Commerce Honours at University of ManitobaNational Ski Patrol's Outdoor Emergency Care (OEC) 
Github Skills (7)
splunk8
splunk-sdk7
python5
logging3
nodejs3
scrape2
shopify1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
docyes/animationinterval
Oct 2013 - Oct 2013
Contributions:17 commits in 2 days
docyes/backbonebase
Apr 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:2 commits, 149 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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