Dorian Karter
Staff Software Engineer II at PDQ
Greater Chicago Area United States
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Top SchoolDorian Karter is a product-focused Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack systems and bringing technically complex products to market. He combines deep expertise in Elixir/Phoenix, TypeScript/React, Postgres and Kubernetes with hands-on experience across DevOps, embedded systems (Nerves) and React Native mobile/hardware integrations. Dorian has led and scaled engineering teams, instituted hiring and assessment frameworks, and improved delivery velocity through architectural standards and CI/CD automation. He’s comfortable translating product strategy into actionable engineering plans, having driven observability, incident response, and data-informed features that unlocked new revenue signals. A longtime Chicago Elixir community organizer and tutor, he pairs mentorship with pragmatic execution and often pairs with engineers to solve thorny problems. Notably, he has a track record of shipping first-of-kind products—like POS hardware—and turning operational pain points into automated tooling that frees engineers to focus on product.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Science, Computer Information Systems at Illinois Institute of TechnologyHigh School Graduation Diploma, High School Graduation Diploma at Be'er Tuvia Regional High School
English, German, Hebrew, Chinese, Spanish
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
dkarter/neptune
May 2022 - Sep 2022
☔ Elixir Cluster on K8s
Contributions:60 commits, 16 PRs, 54 pushes in 3 months
clusterk8skuberneteselixir
dkarter/uule_grabber
Jul 2016 - Aug 2024
🌎 Generates UULE codes for Google Search to allow localized searches.
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 14 pushes in 8 years 1 month
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