Karl Cardenas
Head Of Artificial Intelligence at Spectro Cloud
Greater Phoenix Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKarl Cardenas is a Head of Artificial Intelligence and seasoned technology leader with 8 years of professional experience building cloud-native, DevSecOps-driven solutions and developing engineering teams. He combines hands-on technical depth—from full-stack engineering to public cloud architecture—with a talent for teaching and empowering others, having led education and engineering teams at HashiCorp and Spectro Cloud. A former Army scout team leader turned entrepreneur and CTO, he brings disciplined operational rigor and a bias for tackling organizational problems others avoid. His MBA complements a strong technical foundation in telecommunications and network management, enabling him to translate business needs into practical, secure systems. Based in the Greater Phoenix Area, Karl blends leadership-by-example with a passion for mentoring the next generation of technical leaders.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Belvidere High SchoolMaster of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) at Illinois State UniversityAssociate of Science - AS Pre-Medicine/Pre-Medical Studies, Associate of Science - AS Pre-Medicine/Pre-Medical Studies at Rock Valley College
Norwegian, Spanish, English
Github Skills (200)
integrations10
terraform10
vertex10
consul10
automation10
infrastructure10
microservices10
cloud-native10
terraform-module10
service-mesh10
javascript10
data-center10
hashicorp10
palette10
starlark10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
karl-cardenas-coding/dynamodb-local-example
Aug 2020 - Oct 2022
This is an example project to showcase how to use DynamoDB locally while leveraging Terraform, localstack, and noSQL Workbench for DynamoDB 💻
Contributions:25 commits, 9 PRs, 24 pushes in 2 years 2 months
aws-dynamodbnosqlleveragingworkbenchnosql-workbench
spectrocloud/spectro-vale-pkg
Jun 2024 - Feb 2025
A custom Vale package containing rules and standards that adhere to the Spectro Cloud Style Guide
Contributions:3 releases, 3 reviews, 46 PRs in 7 months
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