Karl Hepworth

Karl Hepworth is a SysOps Engineer with over 8 years of experience in the field. He currently works for PreviousNext, helping with the development and management of the Skpr platform. Before that, Karl worked with the Australian Government Department of Finance on the GovCMS Drupal distribution and contributed to the knowledge and development of the Lagoon platform. It was around this time he became known for the redevelopment of the Pygmy project and maintains it to this day.

Karl's career as a SysOps engineer began at the Shared Services Centre, where he lead the development of a local development platform using Ansible, Vagrant, and Drupal VM. This platform allowed developers to manage and update production Drupal sites, as well as build local websites for development. All this and more were available to the team via a local instance of Jenkins.

Despite being an introvert, Karl enjoys attending conferences to meet and catch up with like-minded people. With a government background stretching back 11 years, Karl has a wealth of experience with Drupal and is passionate about leveraging technology to improve the efficiency of government services.