Karl Kaebnick
Senior Data Engineer
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKarl Kaebnick is a Senior Data Engineer in Detroit with two decades of software experience and a decade focused on data engineering, governance, and web backend work. He designs and builds enterprise data warehouses and ELT pipelines using Python, Airflow, dbt and Django, and champions rigorous automated testing—often maintaining near-100% unit test coverage for critical repos. At the City of Detroit he has led projects from a topsoil data initiative to a citywide SMS platform serving 67,000 residents, blending technical delivery with cross-departmental collaboration and mentoring. His background ranges from early enterprise systems and full-text search at Alacra to language-learning backend work, giving him deep experience parsing, modeling and serving heterogeneous data. An avid jazz pianist and environmentalist, he brings a curator’s attention to quality and reproducibility in data systems.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Post Baccalaureate Certificate, Computer Software Engineering, Post Baccalaureate Certificate, Computer Software Engineering at Harvard UniversityBA, Psychology, Philosophy, BA, Psychology, Philosophy at Boston University
English, German
Github Skills (88)
protobuf8
odbc8
django-rest8
pip8
rest-framework8
metadata8
hugo8
pii8
packaging8
rpc8
serialization8
data-lineage7
governance7
data-validation7
protocol-buffers7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
CityOfDetroit/django_apps
Feb 2017 - Dec 2019
Project for city of Detroit apps and apis using django and django rest framework
Contributions:4 PRs, 829 pushes, 163 branches in 2 years 10 months
apidetroitpythondjango-rest-frameworkdjango
CityOfDetroit/website_scripts
Jun 2018 - Dec 2022
Contributions:2 reviews, 341 commits, 19 PRs in 4 years 6 months
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