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Carter Dean

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Director of Engineering at Fenwick Technologies | ex-VMware

Works at
Fenwick Technologies
Location
Chicago, IL · CT (UTC-6)
Experience
12+ years experience
Education
Northwestern University
Languages
English
Hiring
Message Connect

Overview

I lead platform engineering at Fenwick Technologies in Chicago. Reduced cloud spend on developer platform by 35% in two quarters. Before that: VMware and Walmart. Most at home with Bazel and Backstage.

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Skills
BazelobservabilitygRPCBackstageGoservice meshCI/CD
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

Looking for a backend engineer who has worked on gRPC at scale

Role
Backend engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$171k-$234k + equity
Team
Developer platform, 4 people
Start
This quarter
Must have
Production experience with Backstage Production experience with observability Good judgment about what not to build
Process
Two interviews and a paid trial day

Comp $157k-$238k. We decide within ten days. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Chicago, IL · remote OKgoci/cdbackstage
Open

Experience

  1. Director of Engineering
    Jun 2024 - Present
    Fenwick Technologies · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
    • Led the migration of 80 services to service mesh.
    • Grew the developer platform team from 6 to 32 engineers.
  2. Senior Engineering Manager
    Apr 2022 - Jun 2024
    VMware · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
    • Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 34 a week to 2.
    • Led the migration of 26 services to gRPC.
  3. Senior Engineering Manager
    May 2019 - Apr 2022
    Walmart · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
    • Moved 63% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  4. Senior Engineering Manager
    Dec 2017 - Feb 2019
    Block · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
    • Led the migration of 34 services to Backstage.
  5. Engineering Manager
    Jun 2014 - Dec 2017
    Fidelity Investments · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
    • Wrote the Bazel service that now handles 5 million requests a day.
    • Led the migration of 68 services to observability.

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Education

  1. Northwestern University
    BA, Electrical Engineering
    2003 - 2007

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