Karl Scheirer
API Solutions Architect at Silicon Valley Bank
Vallejo, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKarl Scheirer is an API Solutions Architect with 18 years of experience designing and governing enterprise APIs, currently driving API strategy at Silicon Valley Bank. He combines deep hands-on skills in Apigee, OpenAPI, RESTful design, and API security with cloud architecture expertise as an AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate. Karl has led developer portal initiatives, mentored engineering teams, and built Apigee service offerings for major clients across finance and healthcare. His background spans technical leadership roles from CTO of a philanthropic startup to architecting Drupal-based enterprise systems, giving him a rare blend of product, integration, and operational experience. An active participant in open-source communities including the OpenAPI Initiative and Drupal, he brings a standards-first mindset to practical governance. Based in Vallejo, CA, he’s known for turning complex integration challenges into repeatable, auditable API platforms.
18 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Berkeley City College / VistaUniversity of California Santa Cruz
German
Github Skills (84)
swagger10
guzzle10
oas10
specification10
rest-api10
openapi10
jsonpath10
api10
rest10
nethack10
api-blueprint10
redoc10
documentation-generator10
api-documentation10
webapi10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kscheirer/kickstart-pantheon-upstream
Dec 2019 - Jan 2024
Upstream for 1-click deploy on Pantheon
Contributions:2 PRs, 114 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
clickpantheon1-clickupstream
achieve-internet/smartdocs_extend
Dec 2017 - Sep 2018
Apigee Drupal Developer Portal SmartDocs Extension Module which fixes critical issues with smartdocs.
Contributions:3 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
criticalfixesapigeeportaldrupal
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