Karl Speer
Software Engineer IV at DnDGen
Village of Nyack, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKarl Speer is a results-driven Software Engineer IV with 13 years building maintainable, test-driven C# and JavaScript applications, currently focusing on integrations and data transformations at Mindbody. He leads the open-source DnDGen project—an ASP.NET MVC/AngularJS generator—where he manages releases, CI/CD, and contributor workflows, reflecting his commitment to clean code and community collaboration. Karl has driven architecture and best practices as a Technical Lead and Senior Backend Engineer at globaledit and introduced TDD and automated testing at multiple companies, pairing hands-on implementation with mentoring. Equally at home in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, Docker) and in front-end frameworks (AngularJS, Knockout), he blends technical breadth with strong interpersonal communication and product-focused thinking. Outside engineering, he composes and arranges music and has sung professionally, an uncommon creative thread that informs his collaborative leadership and original problem-solving.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) / Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), English (emphasis in Creative Writing) / Mathematics, Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) / Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), English (emphasis in Creative Writing) / Mathematics at Randolph CollegeCompletion, German, Completion, German at Virginia Governor’s Full-Immersion Language AcademyHigh School, General High School Education, High School, General High School Education at E.C. Glass High SchoolHigh School, Science & Technology, High School, Science & Technology at Central Virginia Governor's School
Dutch, German, English
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Github Skills (122)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
DnDGen/EventGen
Nov 2016 - May 2020
This is a generic event logger that enqueues events and dequeues them on demand. It allows for dynamic updates that can be accessed while other processes run - namely, the DnDGen.Web project can display detailed updates while other Gen projects are running,
Contributions:3 releases, 6 PRs, 49 pushes in 3 years 6 months
eventson-demandloggerlogginggeneric
DnDGen/DnDGen.Infrastructure
Jul 2017 - Feb 2025
This provides common, core objects for the generators, including the Percentile and Collection selectors, with dependencies
Contributions:32 releases, 62 PRs, 148 pushes in 7 years 8 months
dependenciesselectorspercentilegeneratorsdependency-analysis
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