Karl Cartlidge
Application Developer
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKarl Cartlidge is an experienced application developer based in Bristol with 11 years of professional software engineering experience and deep hands-on expertise in C#, .NET Core, WebAPI, Node and modern cloud tooling. He has led and coached teams as a Lead Developer in an agile, TDD environment while architecting cloud-native services on AWS using Docker, Terraform, ECS and RDS. His current role at ALD Automotive focuses on APIs and Oracle-backed .NET systems, building on prior work delivering secure, production-grade services for the public sector. Karl codes both manually and with AI-assisted tools, blending practical craftsmanship with modern developer ergonomics. Comfortable across a polyglot stack (Go, Ruby, PHP, Python) and multiple databases (MongoDB, MariaDB, SQL Server), he pairs pragmatic engineering with operational awareness. Colleagues rely on him for steady delivery, mentorship, and translating complex domain needs into maintainable systems.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Salford
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (36)
epub10
pdf10
metadata10
node-module9
nodejs9
nuget8
entities7
codemirror7
swift6
developer-tools6
database6
sql-server6
wysiwyg6
php6
sql6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kcartlidge/simples
Feb 2017 - Mar 2024
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch, 18 tags in 7 years 2 months
kcartlidge/Newt
Dec 2021 - Jan 2025
Autogenerate a .Net (C#/EF Core) data project (class library with entities and data contexts) and an admin website from a Postgres database. Also creates backup SQL and Graphviz .dot diagram source.
Contributions:4 PRs, 148 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 1 month
admincsharpdotnetefcoreentity-framework
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