Karl Chu
Principal Developer at MYOB
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
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Top SchoolKarl Chu is a principal developer and seasoned technology leader with 18 years’ experience delivering pragmatic, outcome-focused software solutions across large enterprises and high-growth teams. He blends hands-on engineering with people leadership, having led or advised on 20+ engagements at ThoughtWorks and driven delivery turnarounds, engineering practices research, and training at organisations like MYOB, REA, Xero and SEEK. Karl’s strength is breadth: comfortable across infrastructure as code, continuous delivery, TDD and evolutionary architecture, he prefers sensible defaults over dogma to speed delivery without sacrificing quality. Colleagues credit him as a calming, empathic stabiliser who balances customer, business and technical priorities while coaching others to higher performance. His academic grounding in leadership and a long track record of adaptable roles—from infrastructure automation to technical lead—underscore a rare combination of systems thinking and pragmatic execution.
18 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Leadership and Management (Organisation Dynamics) with Distinction, Master of Leadership and Management (Organisation Dynamics) with Distinction at NIODABachelor of Science with Distinction, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science with Distinction, Computer Science at University of Calgary
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Github Skills (9)
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Github contributions (5)
karlchu/openstack-ansible
Jun 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:48 commits in 26 days
karlchu/duplicate_file_finder
Jan 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 year
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