Karl Voelker
Staff Software Engineer at Pilot.com
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolKarl Voelker is a Staff Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 16 years of experience building production-grade systems across startups and larger engineering organizations. He progressed from intern and early engineering roles at Microsoft, Truviso, and Lab126 to long-tenured senior positions at Plum and Pilot, where he now drives technical direction. His background blends full-stack and systems work—dating back to student projects at RIT involving C, SQL, LDAP, and web technologies—giving him a pragmatic grasp of both legacy and modern stacks. Karl is skilled at scaling services and mentoring teams through growth phases, having moved from individual contributor to staff-level impact. He holds dual M.S./B.S. degrees from Rochester Institute of Technology and studied computer science at University of Wisconsin–Madison, reflecting a strong academic foundation paired with sustained industry delivery. Colleagues describe him as a steady problem-solver who prefers shipping reliable systems over chasing the latest hype.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer sciences, Computer sciences at University of Wisconsin-MadisonM.S./B.S. Computer Science, M.S./B.S. Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (41)
mobx10
mdbook10
nodejs10
packed10
realtime9
javascript9
markdown9
sbt9
docker9
haddock9
slack9
react9
rust9
fastest8
interpreter8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ktvoelker/robin
Sep 2012 - Nov 2020
A build daemon for Haskell development
Contributions:48 commits, 6 pushes, 1 comment in 8 years 3 months
daemonhaskellhackageservant
ktvoelker/sbt-vim
May 2012 - Jul 2018
A plugin for using sbt from within Vim
Contributions:33 commits, 4 PRs, 6 pushes in 6 years 3 months
scalavimsbt
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