Karl J.

Haworth
(231) 357-1189 karlhaworth.com me ( at ) karlhaworth.com

ABOUT Highly motivated, leadership driven, team player, and quick learner with
extensive
experience in computer applications and statistical reporting.
Creative thinker and
problem solver with exceptional planning and
analytical abilities.

EDUCATION Albion College; Albion, Michigan

August 2010 – May 2014
Bachelor of Arts

Major: Economics and Management

Minor: Statistics

EXPERIENCE Product Technical Lead - Developer Experience, American Airlines January 2021 – Present

Principal Engineer, IT DevOps

Worked in the Delivery Transformation organization architecting solutions for automation using devops
methodologies
Develop overall strategic technical plan and create architecture plans for implementation based on identified
solution gaps
Create solutions with high level of innovation, cost effectiveness, high quality and faster time to market
Contribute to the overall strategy and manage complex issues
Serve as a Subject Matter Expert in Automation architecture
Collaborate with business and technical partners to identify and scope the opportunities, outline potential
value and ROI, identify risks, benefits and constraints
Principal Engineer, IT DevOps American Airlines June 2020 – January 2021
Worked in the Delivery Transformation organization contributing to the creation of solutions for automation using
devops methodologies
Create architecture proposals based on identified solution gaps
Create solutions with high level of innovation, cost effectiveness, high quality and faster time to market
Contribute to the overall strategy and manage complex issues within functional area of expertise
Work with developers across the company to implement their solutions into an InnerSourced framework
Network Automation Engineer American Airlines June 2019 – June 2020
Worked in the Enterprise Network Automation organization architecting solutions for automation using devops
methodologies
Develop overall strategic technical plan and create architecture proposals based on identified solution gaps
Create solutions with high level of innovation, cost effectiveness, high quality and faster time to market
Contribute to the overall strategy and manage complex issues within functional area of expertise
Serve as a Subject Matter Expert in Automation architecture
Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer American Airlines January 2018 – June 2019
Worked in the Enterprise Network Services department deploying, optimizing, and creating engineering toolsets.
Plan, create, and document processes for new platforms
Evaluate and correct the integrity of existing systems
Maintain and administer multiple platforms including products from Riverbed, CA Technologies, Infoblox, and
Gigamon
Implement data monitoring and collection equipment based on diagrams and run-books provided by architect
IT Infrastructure Engineer American Airlines June 2016 – January 2018
Worked in the Enterprise Network Services department with network and application performance monitoring
toolsets.
Implement data monitoring and collection equipment based on diagrams and run-books provided by architect
Plan, create, and document processes for existing platforms
Maintain and administer multiple platforms including products from Riverbed and CA Technologies
Troubleshoot common network and network device issues with routing and administration
Associate IT Infrastructure Engineer (ADEPT) American Airlines June 2014 – May 2016
The American Airlines Development Program for Technology (ADEPT) is a college recruiting program created to
develop a technical talent pipeline for Information Technology(IT).
Configure, install, and deploy various network devices and services for functional networks
Maintain complete technical documentation
Resolve issues that tiers of support have escalated
Perform network maintenance and system upgrades
Statistical Analyst Intern US Airways July 2012 – June 2014

TECHNICAL Kubernetes
Cloud Environments
TypeScript
Python
React
CI/CD
Docker
GIT
Rest APIs
Process Automation
SKILLS Relational Databases
Cisco Networking
DNS
DHCP
Network Data Aggregation and Mapping
Mac OS
Windows OS
Linux

Cisco IOS
AWARDS Delivery Transformation Principals Award
This team developed a comprehensive interface to deliver Infrastructure for IT-to-IT, and enable Real Time delivery
of our products through automation. Their automated and integrated delivery infrastructure will be a huge time
saver for many teams in the infrastructure procurement process.
- Chief Information Officer (CIO), Executive Vice President (EVP) December 19, 2019

NOTABLE Just awesome. I am so impressed with how you envisioned this future, quickly developed it, and flawlessly executed
RECOGNITION it by making it super easy for the product teams and holding their hands through the process. You all have moved
our developer experience into the modern age! Thanks and congratulations to the entire team.
-
Chief Information Officer (CIO), Executive Vice President (EVP) July 1, 2021

I wanted to let you know that I was on a call for a Runway demo and discussion and was very impressed with Karl.
He has a great understanding of the platform and the technology of course, but his patience, and willingness to
engage and even debate in a very productive and respectful manner was impressive.
-
Vice President (VP) Corporate Technology Feb 5, 2021

Karl – You rock!!! I’m so happy we have you on the team leading the way for Runway!!!
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Managing Director, Technology Transformation Oct 4, 2021

PROJECTS Developer Experience Platform June 2020 - Present

PROBLEM SOLUTION
Launching applications to the cloud is An InnerSourced developer platform along with an automated
extremely difficult and time consuming for Kubernetes ecosystem was created for handling onboarding to our
teams while requiring knowledge in multiple cloud environment with click to deploy with best practices was
tochnology disciplies. created reducing the time to deliver from months to minutes,
eliminating an manual processes.
Kubernetes
Kubernetes Operators
Backstage.io
React
Typescript
GitHub Actions
Argo CD
Terraform
Helm
REST APIs
Postgres
Azure
Nginx
Kuma
Datadog
Artifactory
Plan, architect, implement, and manage a InnerSourced developer platform
Plan, architect, implement, automate, and manage a Kubernetes ecosystem being used by production customer facing
airline systems
Serve as the Technical lead to a team of developers
Mentor new software developers within the direct product group as well as InnerSource contributors
Follow and maintain agile best practices
Requirements analysis and solution architecture design
Abstract complex designs and implementations through a simple developer portal using various backend services
Communicate with other stakeholders/end users in the software development lifecycle

Networking and Firewall Orchestration Platform April 2018 - June 2020

PROBLEM SOLUTION
All requests for networking are recorded very An orchestration platform for networking requests was created that
manually and then multiple administrators is secure with enterprise authentication, fully logged, provides an
manually perform the required task hours or attractive and easy to use interface, and reduces the time to delivery
days later, in multiple platforms creating a long through APIs and automation while standardizing and creating
lag in the time to delivery. relationships among infrastructure objects.
Kubernetes
HTML
CSS
Python
REST APIs
Websockets
MySql
Linux
Jenkins CI/CD
Active Directory
Regular Expressions
SNMP
Redis
RabbitMQ
Cisco Plug-n-Play
Nginx
Define, implement, and manage the development architecture and supporting toolsets required to build and test
complex applications in an efficient and rapid manner
Work within a project management/agile delivery methodology in a leading role as part of a wider team
Documentation of solutions (e.g. data models, configurations, and setup)
Ensure that platforms and data solutions can be deployed and operated in a highly repeatable and predictable manner

Network Device Insourcing Automation March 2016 - June 2016

PROBLEM SOLUTION
Migrate thousands of devices from an Created plan of migrating devices via SNMP TRAP and using SNMP
outsourced vendor to in-sourced. to rapidly rewrite device configurations in bulk.
CA Spectrum
Perl Scripting
SNMP
Comware OS (H3C)
SSH

Define technical requirements

Automate migration workflow
Optimize communication by implementing SNMP over SSH to reduce time to configure and reduce implementation
failures
Develop new capabilities in existing toolsets to communicate with newly acquired unsupported devices
Work with platform administrators and engineering teams to implement and validate solutions