Karl Thiessen
Linux And BSD Consultant at Giggling Dragon Consulting
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorKarl Thiessen is a Linux and BSD consultant based in San Francisco with 13+ years of experience building and automating test and CI systems for large open-source projects and media companies. He led continuous integration and test engineering efforts at Mozilla, driving reliability for Firefox and cloud services before returning to independent consultancy at Giggling Dragon. Comfortable deep in systems, kernels, and automation, Karl pairs hands-on engineering with a principled stance on ethical technology—he has publicly stepped away from platforms and projects that conflict with those values. His background spans testing and quality roles at Internet Archive, Conviva, and startups, giving him a pragmatic, security- and privacy-minded approach to infrastructure. Colleagues know him for insisting on inclusive, accountable teams and for favoring practical solutions that benefit marginalized users as much as code correctness.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (59)
continuous-integration10
django10
docker-compose10
chartjs10
django-rest-framework10
mozilla10
system-identification10
persona10
python9
docker9
react9
json-document9
react-router9
api8
mozilla-firefox8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
karlht/staging-fxa
Nov 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:12 pushes in 2 years 1 month
mozilla-services/sync-tps-setup
Nov 2017 - Apr 2018
INACTIVE - http://mzl.la/ghe-archive - Setup scripts to run https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/TPS_Tests on an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host
Contributions:18 commits, 5 PRs, 16 pushes in 5 months
ubuntuinactive
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