Karl Bergthaler
Lead Engineer at Kiwibank
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolKarl Bergthaler is a Lead Engineer based in Wellington with a decade of experience designing secure, high-performance architectures and turning them into reliable production systems. He has progressed from hands-on software engineering to principal and lead roles at organizations such as Xero and Kiwibank, with deep expertise in site reliability, solutions architecture, and operational leadership. Karl is known for bringing people together—mentoring teams and fostering collaboration to deliver pragmatic, auditable solutions for real-world problems. His background includes security stewardship and data engineering responsibilities in fast-moving product environments, reflecting a blend of technical depth and governance sensibility. Outside work he’s an avid traveller and photographer, a detail that often informs his thoughtful, user-centered approach to system design.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria - Hagenberg Campus
English, Spanish, German, Czech
Github Skills (55)
mvc-framework10
cms10
silverstripe10
mvc10
php10
raygun9
swiftype9
cwp9
php-framework9
grav-plugin9
identifier7
web-platform7
saml-authentication7
guid7
ldap-authentication6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ichaber/dotfiles
May 2016 - Feb 2021
Contributions:8 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 10 months
vimtmuxlinuxdotfiles-ubuntuos-x
ichaber/silverstripe-dynamodb
Aug 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
silverstripestoringdynamodbaws
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