Summary
Ben Carpenter is a seasoned web engineering leader with 17 years of experience building and scaling web, API, and mobile integrations across enterprise and agency settings. Currently Director of Web Engineering at D.R. Horton, he has led digital engineering and API integration teams at FIS and Bottle Rocket, blending hands-on development (Node.js, React/React Native) with process and workflow design. Comfortable toggling between deep technical detail and high-level strategy, he excels at untangling complex integrations and translating requirements into efficient, maintainable systems. A practiced people manager and mentor, he focuses on empowering engineers across experience levels and geographies while maintaining delivery velocity. Based in Richardson, Texas, he brings a design-minded, communicative approach rooted in a Computer Engineering degree from the University of Oklahoma.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering at University of Oklahoma