About

Karl McGuire is a highly skilled Systems Software Engineer with a passion for high performance and distributed computing. With over 3 years of relevant experience, Karl has a proven track record of designing and implementing complex systems that minimize complexity and improve efficiency. Currently working as a Software Engineer at Salucro Healthcare Solutions, Karl is responsible for developing and maintaining software systems that help healthcare providers streamline their payment processes. Prior to this, Karl worked as a Software Engineer at Dgraph Labs, where he designed and implemented a high-performance, fully concurrent cache library in Go, which is now widely used in over 100 projects. He also improved Stripe invoicing for cloud-based deployments with per-region billing based on AWS, automated metric collection and presentation, and improved JSON to NQuad conversion performance by 90% in critical path with unique one-pass parser. Karl has also worked as a Software Engineer at Skycoin, where he designed and built architecture for an OTC exchange providing liquidity and volume to the Skycoin ecosystem. He managed a small team of remote developers building internal microservices and libraries, and created blockchain interoperable services to aid in research and development. Karl holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, which he completed in 2020. He is highly skilled in a variety of technologies, including AWS, Kubernetes, Blockchain, Docker, Research Scientist, and Microservices. Overall, Karl is an innovative and driven Systems Software Engineer with a passion for creating high-performance systems that minimize complexity and improve efficiency. He is a valuable asset to any team and is always looking for new challenges to tackle.