Karl Cartlidge
Application Developer
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKarl Cartlidge is an experienced application developer based in Bristol with 11 years of professional software engineering experience and deep hands-on expertise in C#, .NET Core, WebAPI, Node and modern cloud tooling. He has led and coached teams as a Lead Developer in an agile, TDD environment while architecting cloud-native services on AWS using Docker, Terraform, ECS and RDS. His current role at ALD Automotive focuses on APIs and Oracle-backed .NET systems, building on prior work delivering secure, production-grade services for the public sector. Karl codes both manually and with AI-assisted tools, blending practical craftsmanship with modern developer ergonomics. Comfortable across a polyglot stack (Go, Ruby, PHP, Python) and multiple databases (MongoDB, MariaDB, SQL Server), he pairs pragmatic engineering with operational awareness. Colleagues rely on him for steady delivery, mentorship, and translating complex domain needs into maintainable systems.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Salford
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (43)
node-module10
epub10
database-migration8
nuget-package8
nuget8
markdown7
dotnet7
database7
command-line-tool7
swift6
codemirror6
developer-tools6
sql-server6
nodejs6
php6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kcartlidge/simples
Feb 2017 - Mar 2024
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch, 18 tags in 7 years 2 months
kcartlidge/nodepub
Aug 2015 - May 2022
[ACTIVE] Node module to create valid EPUB v2 ebooks from chapters and metadata.
Contributions:81 commits, 19 PRs, 86 pushes in 6 years 10 months
epubnode-modulenodeepub-generation
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