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Chris Carpenter

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Engineering Manager at Zoom · Cloud infrastructure

Works at
Zoom
Location
Atlanta, GA · ET (UTC-5)
Experience
13+ years experience
Education
Boston University
Languages
English
Advising
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Overview

13 years in software engineering, the last 3 at Zoom, where I lead the infrastructure team. Moved 84% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 452ms to 131ms. Before that: Intuit and Instacart.

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  • Advice on cloud infrastructure
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  • Agency or outsourcing pitches
  • SEO and link-building offers
Skills
TerraformLinuxGoincident responseAWSKubernetesPrometheus
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for new engineering managers: cloud infrastructure and AWS

Topics
cloud infrastructure, Linux, Kubernetes
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One advisory role at a time
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Engineers moving into leadership

13 years of cloud infrastructure. Prefer specific questions over coffee chats.

Atlanta, GAawskubernetesprometheus
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Experience

  1. Engineering Manager
    Feb 2024 - Present
    Zoom · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
    • Grew the infrastructure team from 3 to 38 engineers.
    • Wrote the Terraform service that now handles 74 million requests a day.
    • Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 346ms to 120ms.
  2. Site Reliability Engineer
    Aug 2020 - Feb 2024
    Intuit · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
    • Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 771ms to 84ms.
  3. Site Reliability Engineer
    Oct 2017 - May 2020
    Instacart · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
    • Moved 61% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 32 a week to 2.
  4. Site Reliability Engineer
    Feb 2016 - Oct 2017
    Lyft · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
    • Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 34% in two quarters.
  5. Site Reliability Engineer
    Nov 2013 - Feb 2016
    Pfizer · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
    • Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 19% in two quarters.

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Education

  1. Boston University
    BS, Information Technology
    2008 - 2012

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