Summary
Carl Edwards is a hands-on engineering executive with 12+ years in senior leadership and a 25+ year engineering background driving large-scale product and infrastructure transformations. Currently VP of Engineering at Zero Longevity Science, he has repeatedly led migrations between cloud providers, broken monoliths into domain services, and scaled teams from single digits to 70+ across engineering, DevOps, analytics and security. He combines rigorous hiring and onboarding practices with operational discipline—having run hundreds of interviews, hired dozens of leaders, and delivered SOC I Type I certification and Series D diligence readiness. Past roles at Pandora, ServiceChannel and Human Interest show a track record of shipping device and consumer integrations, bringing mobile and IoT projects in-house, and improving site stability and monitoring. Based in California, he also donates consulting time to nonprofits, showing a pragmatic focus on documentation, security cleanup and measurable product improvements.
12 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer