Carl Lachner is a Head of Engineering based in New York with 11 years of experience building and scaling product-focused engineering teams across fintech and AI startups. He progressed from software engineer roles at Charles River and Stash to founding-engineer and engineering-manager positions at Imprint and Datadog, and now leads engineering at Glidepath AI where he helped seed the company as an early hire. Carl blends hands-on system design and delivery with people leadership, routinely stepping into founding-stage engineering work to define architecture and hiring practices. Comfortable in fast-moving startups, he has a track record of turning early prototypes into production-grade services and mentoring teams through hypergrowth. A University of Michigan computer science graduate, he favors pragmatic, product-aligned technical decisions that accelerate time-to-value.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSE Computer Science, BSE Computer Science at University of Michigan
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