Ben Carter

Overview

Based in London. I lead developer tools at Rivet Foods. Built the experimentation framework 25 product teams use to ship changes safely. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 37 minutes to under 4. Before that: Workday and EY.

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Experience

1. CTO

   Dec 2023 - Present
   Rivet Foods · 2 yr 10 mo · Contract · London, UK
   • Reduced cloud spend on developer experience by 45% in two quarters.
   • Brought on-call pages for developer experience down from 22 a week to 1.
   • Cut p99 latency on the developer experience services from 841ms to 77ms.
2. Principal Engineer

   Aug 2022 - Dec 2023
   Workday · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · London, UK
   • Previously an operator for 11 years before investing.
   • Led or co-led 26 investments, 3 of them now at Series B or later.
3. Senior Engineering Manager

   Jul 2019 - Aug 2022
   EY · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · London, UK
   • Led the migration of 56 services to CLI design.
4. Staff Software Engineer

   Aug 2016 - Jul 2019
   AIB · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · London, UK
   • Mentored 9 engineers through their first promotion.
5. Staff Software Engineer

   Apr 2013 - Aug 2016
   Workday · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · London, UK
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 24 minutes to under 3.
   • Moved 93% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Education

1. London School of Economics

   BSc, Mathematics
   1997 - 2000