Karl Fischer
Chief Technology Officer at Obsidian Systems
Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
Summary
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SeniorKarl Fischer is a community-focused Chief Technology Officer based in Pretoria with 11 years of experience leading remote engineering teams and driving open source collaboration. At Obsidian Systems he blends technical leadership with strong interpersonal skills to align distributed contributors around shared project goals and timely delivery. Passionate about the social side of software, he leverages community dynamics to scale quality outcomes and mentor engineers to reach their potential. Known as a "lover of people and machines," he pairs practical engineering judgment with a knack for networking and relationship-driven problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (200)
testing10
autocomplete10
chef-client10
automation10
influxdb10
inspec10
audit10
prometheus10
terragrunt10
modern-ui10
jenkins10
terraform10
pulumi10
mysql10
inspector10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
kmf/habitat-atlassian-bamboo
Mar 2019 - Sep 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
kmf/kmf
Oct 2020 - Feb 2026
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
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