Karl Ward
Software Engineer at Google
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKarl Ward is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building and operating large-scale systems, currently contributing to Google after earlier roles in site reliability and high-performance computing. He brings deep Unix and systems expertise from positions at Morgan Stanley, Road Runner, and NYU, and blends academic curiosity—an MPS from NYU and a BA from Columbia—with practical production experience. Comfortable at the intersection of software engineering and ops, he has a track record of keeping complex infrastructure reliable while iterating on service design. A self-described music, book, and OS nerd with a long-winded skeptic’s streak, he pairs rigorous troubleshooting instincts with a taste for thoughtful, sometimes contrarian engineering. Based in the New York City area, he’s equally at home debugging low-level system behavior or collaborating on large distributed platforms.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MPS, MPS at New York UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) at Columbia University
Stackoverflow
321reputation
564kreached
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apache
top-5%
Github Skills (12)
apache9
socket-io6
ssl6
twitter5
filtering5
data-filtering4
python4
sqlalchemy4
arduino4
database3
postgresql3
spring2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
karlward/Filter
Feb 2013 - Oct 2013
Contributions:87 commits in 8 months
data-filteringfilteringarduino
karlward/tweetsql
Oct 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:9 commits, 1 push in 4 months
postgres-databasepythonsqlalchemystoringtwitter-data
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