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Leading engineering at Lucerna Health
Built the team, the platform, the security program, and the internal IT function from scratch — then kept shipping while the company kept changing around it.
Salt Lake City · engineering leadership
Thoughtful engineering leadership & careful software.
I build teams, platforms, and the operating systems around them — from architecture and security to hiring, vendor wrangling, and the quiet work that makes software organizations dependable.
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The durable stuff.
About Me
What I Did Most Recently I ran engineering at Lucerna Health for six years (2020–2026). I built the team, the data platform, the security and compliance program, and the IT org. I handled v…
Agent Skills
GitHub: carlkibler/agent-skills A collection of skills for Claude Code and Codex that I've built and use daily. Skills are prompt-defined behaviors that AI agents invoke automatically based…
Citadel: LLM Security Lab
GitHub: carlkibler/citadel-llm-security-lab A single-day security sprint that evolved a prompt injection scanner through nine generations, with red team attacks driving each iteration. The …
Coldbrew: Unlocking a Dead Fitness Bike
GitHub: carlkibler/coldbrew-expresso-bike-unlock The Expresso HD is a recumbent exercise bike with an immersive steering interface — real handlebars, 60+ virtual worlds, racing games. The h…
Home
Carl Kibler Six years running engineering at Lucerna Health — I built the team, the platform, the compliance program, and the culture from scratch. Healthcare data exchange, entity resoluti…
Leadership Excellence
This is a new page and unorganized. Currently I am dumping links in. All of the content here are links to other people's writings. I am not the author, though I am writing a series to publi…
Notes to a New Engineer
This is a series of posts meant for new engineers of any age. The posts are individually readable and each communicates an important primary idea that can help learn the thought process and…
Writing