Karsten Rabe
Platform Engineer
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolKarsten Rabe is a platform engineer and full-stack web developer with 11 years of experience building maintainable, open-source-friendly software and cloud-native platforms. Currently at IBM, he has progressed from full-stack development to solutions architecture and platform engineering, blending hands-on MERN and Svelte expertise with container platforms and Linux operations. Based in Chapel Hill, he pairs practical cloud architecture skills with a developer-first focus on intuitive, supportable systems. He mentors aspiring engineers through Code the Dream and brings a background in international studies and hands-on carpentry, which informs a pragmatic, user-centered approach to engineering. Known for a continuous learning mindset, he combines deep JavaScript and Linux fluency with an enthusiasm for language and tooling that helps teams ship cleaner, more reliable software.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Full stack web development, A+ average, Certificate, Full stack web development, A+ average at UNC Coding Bootcamp 2018Bachelor of Arts - BA, International/Global Studies, Bachelor of Arts - BA, International/Global Studies at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
French, German, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (61)
pandora10
javascript9
utilities9
browser9
date-fns9
nodejs9
react9
nextjs8
web-application8
typescript7
compiler7
rust6
hybrid6
linux6
jquery6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
krab7191/Night-In
Jul 2018 - Aug 2018
UNC coding bootcamp group project 1
Contributions:54 PRs, 76 pushes, 69 branches in 12 days
javascriptcoding-bootcampproject-1unc
krab7191/react-cli
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
A flexible set of command line tools which mimics angular-cli `ng g c` functionality for some common React design patterns.
Contributions:36 commits, 21 pushes, 2 branches in 27 days
flexiblemimicsreactng-clicommand-line-tools
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