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About Karl

Illustrated portrait of Karl Livesey in a neon city at night

Hi, I’m Karl.

I am a software engineer working mostly with Apex, TypeScript, Rust, Java, and Elixir. I enjoy understanding the systems beneath the abstraction and finding solutions that remain understandable after the interesting part is finished.

Much of my work sits around Salesforce: Apex, LWC, Flow, integrations, security, and the awkward boundaries between code and configuration. I care about sensible architecture, useful tooling, and making the safe path the easy path.

This blog is where I keep practical notes from real projects and experiments. The posts are deliberately implementation-first: what changed, where the sharp edges are, and what I would do differently next time.

Away from work, I run a Minecraft server, explore systems and 3D-printing rabbit holes, and answer to Waffle, my guinea pig and least predictable stakeholder.