Summary
Karl Pietri is a Lead Engineer with 12 years of experience modernizing infrastructure and driving DevOps transformation for enterprises like TransUnion, PayPal, VMware, and Williams Sonoma. He specializes in Puppet-led automation, CI/CD pipelines, and technical debt reduction, having rebuilt disjointed environments into highly available, cost-saving systems and automated key security processes such as ssh key rotation and host-based firewall controls. Karl’s background spans SRE and systems automation at Google, SlideShare, and others, where his work cut deploy times dramatically and scaled services across multi-region clouds. Based in Grand Rapids, he combines hands-on engineering with pragmatic cost optimization—once migrating Puppet from enterprise to open source to save over $1M annually—while remaining focused on building robust, auditable infrastructure for the future.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer