Karl Bowden
Principal Engineer at Commonwealth Bank
Newcastle-Maitland, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolKarl Bowden is a Principal Engineer based in Newcastle, NSW with 16 years of hands-on experience delivering customer-focused iOS and full-stack solutions. Self-taught from a Commodore 64 beginning, he combines deep pragmatic engineering—scalable architecture, CI-driven builds and maintainable code—with a relentless focus on polished user experience. At Commonwealth Bank he progressed from Senior iOS Developer to Principal Engineer, driving platform quality and timely delivery for large teams. He’s an active open-source contributor, notable for migrating and modernizing the ReSwift project and adding CI and cross-platform testing infrastructure. Comfortable across mobile, web and server stacks, he also brings practical ops experience from early IT management and freelance work, making him effective at end-to-end delivery. Colleagues know him as opinionated about architecture but relentlessly user-centered in execution.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Spotswood College
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
swift10
redux10
travis-ci9
testing8
libvirt6
xcode6
ios6
kvm6
linux6
unix6
django6
qemu6
ios-simulator6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ReSwift/ReSwift
Dec 2015 - Jul 2016
Unidirectional Data Flow in Swift - Inspired by Redux
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 41 commits, 33 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Karl primarily focused on migrating the project from SwiftFlow to ReSwift, involving significant refactoring of codebase, renaming files, and updating project configurations. They integrated Travis CI for continuous integration, including testing across multiple platforms and release publishing. The user also addressed documentation, including instructions for building dependencies and cleaning up schemes for testing, reflecting their involvement in the project's infrastructure and build processes.
reduxswiftunidirectional-data-flowreswift
SydneyCocoaHeads/SydneyCocoaheads.github.io
May 2016 - Apr 2020
Sydney CocoaHeads Website
Contributions:19 commits, 14 PRs, 31 pushes in 3 years 11 months
sydney
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