Karl Lehenbauer
Investor at Sand Hill Angels
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKarl Lehenbauer is an investor and seasoned technology leader best known as the principal architect behind FlightAware’s real-time flight-tracking platform, with decades designing mission-critical systems across aerospace, power generation, and oilfield domains. An Internet pioneer, he founded and sold the first ISP in the Southern United States in the 1990s and was an early contributor to Tcl, numerous extensions, and Apache/open-source Internet protocols dating back to the mid-1980s. He has held CTO roles at multiple startups, served as FlightAware CTO for many years, and now advises Collins Aerospace while investing through Sand Hill Angels. Beyond software and systems, he applies the same engineering rigor to competitive motorsports—winning the 2015 Texas Region NASA Super Unlimited points championship—and is an avid cyclist, kayaker, and Trans-Am instructor-driver.
23 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Indiana University Bloomington
Github Skills (154)
json-parser10
mls10
rows10
launcher10
forwarding10
dac10
tcl10
ads10
serpent10
json10
postgresql-database10
qualcomm10
piaware10
software-defined-radio10
decoder10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
flightaware/tcljs
Jun 2011 - Aug 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
flightaware/scotty
Feb 2011 - May 2019
Contributions:1 release, 12 commits, 2 PRs in 8 years 4 months
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