Robert Karl
Founder at Stealth Startup
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Karl is a founder and software engineer in Seattle with 14 years of experience building production-grade systems for AI, mobile, and cloud infrastructure. He specializes in on-premises AI infrastructure and GPU cluster scaling—work informed by roles at xnor.ai and AWS—and now leads a stealth startup enabling companies to keep sensitive data off the cloud. His background spans early mobile engineering at Hipmunk and Facebook to entrepreneurial projects like Velvetax, where he launched an open-source crypto tax kernel and built resilient, zero-downtime deployments. Comfortable across Python, Kubernetes, PyTorch, and C++, he blends systems engineering with practical ML ops and automation. Notably, he has repeatedly solved single-point-of-failure problems in clustered environments, turning research-grade models into reliable, real-time demos and production services. Trained at Caltech, he pairs deep technical chops with a founder’s instinct for productizing complex tooling.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of Technology
Stackoverflow
7,688reputation
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24questions
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Github Skills (48)
sublime-text9
javascript9
lightning9
bitcoin-wallet9
bitcoin9
android-studio9
wallet8
tax8
python8
cryptocurrency8
calculator8
lightning-network8
scalable7
extensible7
window-management7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rakeshcusat/WellDone
Jun 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:66 commits in 27 days
zackgomez/kiss-particles
Dec 2011 - Mar 2012
Contributions:31 commits in 2 months
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