About Me

What I Do Now

I run engineering at Lucerna Health, a healthcare startup. I built the team, the data platform, the security and compliance program, and the IT org. I handle vendor contracts, architecture decisions, and brought AI into how we build and what we ship. If it was technical and it mattered, it was mine.

The platform does healthcare data exchange, ETL, entity resolution, and patient engagement. Six years of evolving the stack across AWS, Snowflake, and a lot of other tools, always migrating live product without breaking things.

How I Got Here

I started at Motorola building global telecom systems. Designed enterprise platforms, got them certified, trained clients' teams in the US and overseas.

At Cerner I ran a Patient Portal project across two EHR systems and an insurer. Two years, three companies, CTO-level oversight from all of them. I also rebuilt a partner's engineering team from the ground up: moved out the people who weren't working, hired new engineers, designers, and a product manager.

At Instructure I took over a struggling team and got it shipping again. Every project on time or early. Fixed the team's relationship with Product along the way.

Then Lucerna, where I built everything from scratch.

What I Care About

Engineering culture is a competitive advantage. My team's average tenure is 4+ years because I invest in people, give them room to work, and go to bat for them. I'd rather teach someone to think well than produce code fast.

I've been a Big Brother through Big Brothers Big Sisters for 14+ years. I teach AP Computer Science through Microsoft TEALS and have for 7+ years. I got an Executive MBA (summa cum laude) because I wanted to understand the business side as well as I understood the technical side.

I also build furniture, make art, and occasionally write about things I find interesting.

What I'm Looking For

I want my next role in engineering leadership: Head of Engineering, Director, VP. Hybrid or remote, interesting problems, a company that actually cares about how the engineering org works.

Resume (PDF) · Salt Lake City, Utah · carl@carlkibler.com · LinkedIn

The Personal Stuff

I live in Salt Lake City with two wonderful people. I build furniture in my shop, explore Utah's national parks, and have been doing Big Brothers Big Sisters long enough that my Little is taller than me. The Bonneville Salt Flats photo on the home page is one of my favorite places.