Karl Podger
Senior Developer at Caffè Nero
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKarl Podger is a senior developer and technical consultant with 13 years’ experience building performant web platforms, headless e-commerce, and Hypermedia APIs using modern stacks like React, Web Components and Node.js. He blends deep practical skills in SEO, page-weight optimisation, CI/CD, testing and security with a strong interest in W3C specs and browser implementation details to squeeze every millisecond from client experiences. Karl has led technical teams and projects for brands including LVMH, Caffè Nero and La Perla, architecting linked-data driven APIs (JSON-LD, HYDRA, triple pattern fragments) and automating schema.org/GS1 extensions into JSON Schema and OpenAPI to enforce data integrity. Equally comfortable in DevOps across AWS and GCP, he pairs backend systems design with hands-on frontend engineering and WordPress/BigCommerce integrations. Notably, he created a headless BigCommerce proof-of-concept embedded into a marketing site and built cross-platform tooling such as Node-based sync services and a Chrome extension to streamline editorial workflows. Based in Stony Stratford, Karl continually explores new browser APIs and tooling to refine efficiency and reliability in production systems.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Multimedia Technology, BSc (Hons) Multimedia Technology at University of Hertfordshire
French
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Github Skills (25)
html6
custom-element6
localization6
attribute6
l20n6
skeleton5
yeoman4
wordpress4
wordpress-plugin4
homebrew3
taxonomy-terms3
passwordless3
composer3
scss-lint3
authentication2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
wednesdayagency/grid-generator.wednesdayagency.com
Jun 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:26 pushes in 3 months
ilovestage/ilovestage.co.uk
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 month
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