# Carl Walsh

> DevOps Engineer focusing on Desktop & Cloud

Location: San Rafael, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/carl

Software developer with a wide variety of technical interests. Developed data and programming applications, and dabble in web/games/graphics/hardware/math.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Autodesk
Jan 2020 – Present | San Rafael, California, United States
Build tools and fix processes to help internal Cloud teams onboard to our internal platform APIs.
Managing a desktop/cloud Jenkins CI/CD system, on Windows, macOS, and Redhat Linux.
Wrote ansible scripts to recreate any virtual machine from base images.

### Software Engineer in Test and Infrastucture @ Google
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Kirkland, Washington, United States
Worked on a DevOps team supporting engineering-productivity on the GCP BigQuery team
Created a pool of development instances, reducing time for a new dev creating an instance from days to seconds.
Migrated test instances to new company standard SUT pooling service before deprecation
Increased reliability by further migrating test instances to a custom pooling solution
Update a myriad of Python 2 tests and tools to Python3
Interviewed several dozen candidates leading to a dozen accepted offers

### Software Engineer II @ Microsoft
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Redmond, Washington, United States
Developed the Visual Studio C++ CMake language service using C#
Added CI testing against public GitHub repos with CMake builds definitions
Contributed fixes to OSS CMake TextMate grammar

### Software Engineer II @ Microsoft
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 | Redmond, Washington, United States
Working on the Power BI query engine, powering the Get Data experience in Excel
Added features in ADO.NET provider and Power Query / M programming language
Spearheaded migration of build, test, and release infrastructure to Azure cloud
Worked build-system magic to make application startup 2x faster
Managed fifteen test servers and databases by controlling permissions and data for reliable testing
Maintained a legacy web service to ensure uptime and compliance with security and privacy standards
Mentored a summer intern who successfully automated monthly documentation releases
Helped users on StackOverflow find solutions to questions regarding M language, leading the [powerquery](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/powerquery) tag.

### Software Development Intern @ University of Nevada-Las Vegas
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Las Vegas, NV
Created circuit simulation software within an interdisciplinary NSF-funded project

### Research Intern @ Fred Hutch
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Assisted research into discovering viral causes of disease by correlating against immune system history
Scripted webform access to DNA database


## Education
### Bachelor's in Computer Science
Harvey Mudd College
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/carlfwalsh
- Website: https://carlwa.com

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Source: https://flows.cv/carl
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/carl/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22