About Karl

Karl Dreyer Jr. was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, but his story truly began in the rugged mining town of Bagdad, Arizona, where he spent the first ten years of his life dreaming of becoming a filmmaker. Though that dream never took shape, his passion for storytelling never faded.

Returning to Lancaster with his mother and grandmother, Karl finished high school before embarking on a successful thirty-year career as a software developer and engineer. Yet, the call of storytelling remained. In 2017, at the age of forty-seven, he finally embraced his childhood dream — and began writing.

Today he builds software the same way he always has: end to end, by hand, with the person who asked for it. His current work is consulting — custom platforms, legacy modernization, and AI integration — and NeXtrade, the autonomous trading desk he built and runs himself.