Karl Cordes
karl@cordes.com.au · +61 415 397 713
Karl Cordes is a software developer and systems administrator with experience at Atlassian, Yahoo, and more.
Skills
Infrastructure & DevOps: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana)
Languages & Frameworks: Bash, Python, Go, Ruby, JavaScript, PHP, Perl, Flask, Rails, Sinatra
Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch
Web: HTML, CSS, nginx, Apache, CDN (CloudFront, Fastly)
Tools: Git, Emacs, tmux, VIM, Make, CMake, C, Java
Experience
Atlassian (2020–present)
Senior Systems Engineer
Leading infrastructure automation and reliability engineering for Atlassian’s cloud platforms. Specializing in large-scale distributed systems, Kubernetes operations, and developer tooling.
Atlassian (2018–2020)
Systems Engineer
Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines, containerized services, and infrastructure as code. Implemented monitoring and alerting systems for production environments.
Atlassian (2015–2018)
Site Reliability Engineer
Managed production systems for Atlassian’s developer tools. Focused on system reliability, performance tuning, and incident response.
Yahoo (2014–2015)
Service Engineer
Maintained Yahoo’s infrastructure services including email, search, and advertising platforms.
Tectonic Digital (2011–2014)
Web Developer
Built responsive web applications and e-commerce platforms for clients across Australia.
CMC Technologies (2007–2011)
Web Application Developer & Linux Systems Administrator
Developed web applications in PHP and Perl while administering Linux server infrastructure.
Education
University of New South Wales Bachelor of Science — Computer Science