Summary
Karen Petersen is a Senior Software Engineer and Project Lead with over three decades of experience building and shipping complex C++ systems and leading cross-continental teams. Based in Colorado, she has managed multi-product roadmaps and a distributed engineering organization while remaining hands-on with C++, C#, Python and integrations using Qt, QML and Boost. Her background spans motion capture, video/audio imaging and voice recognition—work that culminated in leading teams through multiple synchronized product releases at Vicon. Known for navigating large codebases and vendor-supplied hardware interfaces, she combines deep technical craftsmanship with practical project leadership. An early adopter of platform migrations, she has repeatedly turned research into production-grade solutions across startups and established companies.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Comptuer Science, BS, Comptuer Science at Colorado State University