Karl Kirch
Senior Software Engineer at Mapbox
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
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Top SchoolKarl Kirch is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building scalable, long-running distributed systems and reliable production services across languages including Java, Scala, Go, Clojure, NodeJS, and Python. He has driven architecture and operational improvements at companies like HashiCorp and Mapbox, and previously designed high-throughput alerting and real-time ingest pipelines for weather and finance applications. Karl blends pragmatic engineering—favoring modern standards without chasing every bleeding-edge trend—with a focus on measurement, planning, and execution to solve hard, cross-system problems. He is increasingly applying low-level, performance-driven techniques from graphics and game-development disciplines to backend and streaming systems. Based in Oklahoma City, he pairs a master’s-level computer science background with hands-on experience in messaging, stream processing, monitoring, and CI/CD to reduce maintenance costs and improve system stability.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Southwestern Oklahoma State UniversityMaster's level courses Computer Science, Master's level courses Computer Science at Oklahoma State University
English
Github Skills (102)
api-client10
terraform10
infrastructure10
declarative10
terraform-module10
build-configuration10
jquery10
terraform-cloud10
hashicorp10
terraform-enterprise10
api10
sdk10
graph10
terragrunt10
hcl10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
codeforokc/school-finder
Dec 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:32 commits, 36 PRs, 32 pushes in 3 months
web-basedlocatingschoolsgeolocationdistricts
joekarl/terraform-test-simple
Nov 2020 - Jan 2024
This is a valid module repository.
Contributions:25 releases, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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