David Karr
Principal System Engineer at AT&T
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Karr is a Principal System Engineer in Seattle with 17 years of experience building dependable, cloud-native back-end systems and developer tooling. He designs and implements Java Spring Boot REST services and singlehandedly authors Go utilities for data analysis, secrets processing, and developer workflows, all deployed in Docker/Kubernetes environments. At AT&T he drove CI/CD improvements—integrating Jenkins, Bitbucket, SonarQube, and chat notifications—and prototyped Telepresence/Istio workflows to improve in-cluster debugging. A long-time advocate for unit-test quality and mentoring, he also produces technical guidance and reviews contributions across multiple teams and repositories. His career spans low-level C/C++ and embedded systems to enterprise middleware and open-source contributions such as the Struts-EL tag library, reflecting a rare combination of systems-level depth and pragmatic developer-experience focus.
17 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Math & Computer Science, BS, Math & Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Stackoverflow
14,737reputation
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466answers
389questions
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Github Skills (200)
theia10
gradle-plugin10
code-analysis10
plsql10
spring-mvc10
swift10
graph10
osgi10
spring-boot10
spring10
sonarqube10
maven-plugin10
eclipse10
javascript10
charts10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
davidmichaelkarr/karaf
Aug 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
javakarafapacheapache-karaf
davidmichaelkarr/camunda-docs-manual
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 4 branches in 10 days
camundahugojekyllsources
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