Karl Hepler
Staff Software Engineer - DevEx at Maze
Cary, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKarl Hepler is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in developer experience, platform reliability, and full-stack engineering. He has led cross-functional teams to migrate large production fleets to Kubernetes, standardize developer tooling, and cut CI times dramatically through monorepo optimizations and Bazel adoption. Comfortable across frontend and backend stacks, he designs pragmatic, hermetic build and deployment systems and has hands-on experience creating shared libraries, CI/CD pipelines, and developer identity flows. Based in Cary, NC, Karl pairs technical leadership with deep implementation work—personally authoring core tooling and conducting dozens of technical interviews to raise hiring and engineering bar. Outside of work he’s a multi-instrument musician, which hints at his blend of technical discipline and creative problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Reynolds Community CollegeVirginia Commonwealth University
English
Github Skills (137)
testing10
javascript10
angular-ui-router10
html10
angular10
typescript10
vue10
svelte10
pypi10
documentation10
react-native10
vite10
web-components10
webpack10
react10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
karlhepler/rkf2016
Apr 2016 - Sep 2019
Contributions:60 pushes, 1 branch, 6 tags in 3 years 5 months
karlhepler/vimrc
Mar 2018 - Mar 2021
Contributions:7 commits, 141 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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