Karl Swanson
DevOps Engineer at Clair Global
Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKarl Swanson is a DevOps Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating technology for live productions, temporary networks, and large-scale audio systems. At Clair Global he blends full-stack WebRTC development, embedded systems programming, and audio engineering to deliver real-time capture, analysis, and visualization solutions for concerts and events. He is fluent in Python, Go, TypeScript, C++, and media tooling like FFmpeg, GStreamer, WebRTC and Dante, and routinely packages and deploys software across on-prem, AWS, and constrained edge devices. Karl’s background as a live sound engineer and network administrator gives him a rare end-to-end perspective—from microcontroller firmware to production IT racks—enabling reliable remote support during high-stakes events. Based in Pennsylvania, he’s driven by pragmatic automation and enjoys translating complex audio/network problems into maintainable, deployable systems.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at University of Illinois at Chicago
Github Skills (9)
monitoring10
kicad7
obs2
python1
rtmp1
webrtc1
static-site1
meter1
streaming1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
karlcswanson/CatPatch
Apr 2018 - Jan 2019
PCB Designs for a subsnake system
Contributions:25 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 9 months
kicadlivesoundpcbproaudio
karlcswanson/micboard
Mar 2018 - Mar 2022
Visual monitoring tool for network enabled Shure devices
Contributions:1 release, 439 commits, 8 PRs in 4 years
monitoringlivesoundproaudio
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