Karl Kloppenborg
Region
Sydney, NSW, Australia – APNIC
Skills Summary
Senior software, infrastructure & Systems engineer, computer scientist and mid-level network engineer, specialized in cloud computing and virtualization with over Fifteen years industry experience developing private clouds and large software systems for Telecommunications, SaaS and Hosting companies.
Skills Matrix
Languages:
Python (14 years’ experience), Golang (4 years’ experience), C# (Advanced knowledge), C/C++ (Advanced Knowledge), PHP (5 years’ experience), Ruby (RoR, 5 years’ experience).
Other languages with mixed skill levels: JavaScript (NodeJS, ECMA), HTML, CSS, Perl, Bash, Java, Objective-C, Swift.
System Admin:
Advanced knowledge with *nix/BSD platforms, particularly Debian derivatives and FreeBSD.
Experienced in Kernel development, virtualization (LXC, KVM, QEMU).
Code contributions to Kernel development Ubuntu Stream, Debian Stream.
Cloud Systems Engineering
Advanced knowledge in Openstack, core contributor to Openstack-Helm projects.
Contributions to Openstack-Kolla with ISCSI implementation for Cinder.
Large breadth of knowledge with AWS and GCP core and related services, including best practice design.
Systems Engineering / Development:
Skilled and certified engineering knowledge with Kubernetes.
Certified with CNCF-[KCNA, CKA, CKAD], LFCE, CompTIA Linux+ XK0-004
Advanced knowledge of cluster systems including PAXOS and RAFT consensus protocols, distributed computing software systems including:
• Message buses: RabbitMQ, Kafka and Redis (celery implementation)
• Key value stores: Memcached, Redis
• Service Discovery & Visibility: etcd, Consul, Zookeeper, Eureka, Serf.
• Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, CouchDB, MongoDB, DynamoDB, CockroachDB, Cassandra.
• Formation Services: Terraform, CloudFormation, Packer.
• Security distribution and KMS: Vault and AWS-SecretsKMS
• Virtualization platforms: Openstack, KVM/QEMU
Network Engineering
Mid-level network engineering, deep understanding of the TCP/IP protocol suite and stack.
Mid-level understanding of MPLS, BGP, VXLAN, EVPN and topology design.
Experience
Reset Data Pty Ltd
Chief Technology Officer
Designed and implemented world’s first environmentally sustainable public cloud based on a mixture of new and existing technologies and now handle the day to day engineering aspects and staffing of the company.
Real World Group
Senior Systems Engineer
My primary responsibilities are project development for clients. Design, implementation and ongoing operation of systems including Openstack cloud environments for customers.
Invention Labs
Consulting to different clients in virtualization, systems engineering, development.
Clients include: Amaysim Telecom, Commonwealth Bank, Amaze / SIS Group, Digital Pacific, Hostopia, Australia Post.
LogicSaaS
Chief Technology Officer
Responsible for product delivery of the logistics automation platform and ePOS platform. Headed up development team of 15 mixed roles.
Digitalmaas
Head of backend engineering
Responsible for design and development of digitalmaas’s data storage analytics platform.
Crucial Cloud Hosting
Head of development
Responsible for the design and development of their blaze VPS platform which was world first to market for SSD backed VPS servers.
Headed up engineering team of 6 mixed roles.
Belrose Satellite Facility / Department of Defense (USA DoDA)
Limited information due to Employment – Satellite related operations.
VioCorp International
Systems Administrator
Responsible for deployment and maintenance of their large scale – on-the-fly transcoding farm. Team of three, reporting directly to CTO.
Dragnet Internet Services
Systems Administrator / Network Engineer
Responsible for day-to-day operations of a national internet service provider, mixed dialup, ADSL and Satellite.
Last modified on 30/01/2024