Karl Girthofer

Karl Girthofer has a varied work experience in the field of technology and engineering. Karl is currently the VP of Platform Engineering at Net Health, a position they have held since June 2023. Prior to their current role, Karl worked as the Director of Platform Engineering at Health Union from September 2022 to June 2023, and as the Director of DevOps from October 2020 to September 2022. Before joining Health Union, Karl served as a Senior DevOps Engineer at Guru (getguru.com) from October 2017 to October 2020. Karl also worked as a Cloud Operations Engineer at ShopRunner from October 2016 to June 2017, and as a DevOps Engineer at Delphic Digital from February 2016 to October 2016. Karl has additional experience as a DevOps Engineer at Radian from June 2015 to February 2016, as a Cloud Systems Engineer at Cloudreach from May 2015 to June 2015, and as a Network Administrator, Web Systems Administrator, and Junior Linux Network Administrator at Universal Technical Resource Services, Inc. from January 2014 to May 2015. Prior to that, Karl worked as a Technician at Pegasus Technologies from June 2013 to January 2014. Karl has also been a Chapter Member at InfraGard Philadelphia Chapter since 2019.

Karl Girthofer earned their Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, with a focus on Internet Security, from West Chester University of Pennsylvania. Karl attended this institution from 2007 to 2012. Additionally, they obtained certification as an AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate from Amazon Web Services in June 2015. There is no information provided regarding their education at Philly Dev Week.