Karl Girthofer
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolKarl Girthofer is a pragmatic engineering leader with a decade of experience building cloud-native platforms, driving migrations, and scaling systems for high-throughput applications. He has led multi-team, multi-cloud transformations—retiring data centers, delivering petabyte-scale migrations, and cutting operational spend by millions while improving latency and uptime. Comfortable both hands-on and strategic, Karl has coached and grown 20+ engineers, institutionalized IaC and GitOps, and negotiated major vendor savings to standardize tooling. His recent work focuses on modernizing healthcare infrastructure in AWS and guiding nonprofit arts education as a board member, a combination that reflects technical rigor paired with community-focused leadership. Based in Philadelphia, he brings a talent for converting legacy complexity into automated, auditable, and cost-effective platforms.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Philly Dev WeekBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Internet Security, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Internet Security at West Chester University of Pennsylvania
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Github Skills (68)
amazon10
command-line-interface9
amazon-web-services9
aws9
aws-cli9
cli8
lastpass8
test-kitchen8
kitchen8
docker-container7
go-api7
amazon-ec27
lamp6
testing6
api6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Kgirthofer/ecs_cluster_terraform
Oct 2017 - Mar 2020
Contributions:11 releases, 23 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
Kgirthofer/aws_ha_vpc_terraform
Oct 2017 - Oct 2019
Contributions:11 releases, 4 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 years
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