Karl Becker
Co-Founder, CTO at Third Iron
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolKarl Becker is a veteran software leader and co-founder currently serving as CTO at Third Iron, where he built the first BrowZine prototype and has led the team improving academic journal reading for researchers since 2011. With 12+ years of professional experience and a BS in Computer Engineering, he blends mobile app and web development expertise with systems engineering rigor honed at Rockwell Collins across aerospace and defense programs. He also runs KB Productions, shipping iPhone apps and websites, and brings a product-first mentality to technical leadership and hands-on development. Known for partnering with librarians and researchers, he quietly bridges academic needs and consumer-quality UX to make complex scholarly content more discoverable and enjoyable.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at North Dakota State University
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Github Skills (200)
e2e10
vagrant10
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fast-xml-parser10
fetch10
buffer10
validate10
locale10
testing-library10
xml10
data-loading10
javascript10
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
thirdiron/node-csv-parse
Aug 2016 - Feb 2019
CSV parsing implementing the Node.js `stream.Transform` API
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 branch, 4 comments in 2 years 6 months
csvapicsv-readerstream-jstransform
karlbecker/parallel-coding-example1
Aug 2018 - Feb 2019
An example of how we could maybe specify an entire app and let it get built in a massive parallel coding session
Contributions:15 PRs, 39 pushes, 7 branches in 5 months
built-inletspecifyparallel
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