Carter Carter
Founder at Tangerine Star
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCarter Carter is a product-focused founder and technology leader with eight years in senior product roles and a 25+ year career shaping digital platforms from Microsoft to startups. He led ElectionGuard at Microsoft, delivering an open-source cryptographic SDK deployed in real U.S. elections, and previously built high-scale real-time systems like Microsoft Pulse used by national broadcasters. His work spans civic tech, consumer platforms, and developer tooling—combining product strategy, engineering oversight, and partnerships with government and non-profits. A serial entrepreneur, he co-founded Drizl and now leads Tangerine Star, bringing user-centered design to market-facing and mission-driven products. He also contributes to election technology communities on GitHub and in collaborative initiatives, blending open-source stewardship with practical deployments. Trained as an electrical engineer with an MS in energy and environmental economics, he brings interdisciplinary thinking to complex system design and public-interest technology.
8 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering at University of Massachusetts AmherstMaster of Science - MS Energy and Environmental Economics, Master of Science - MS Energy and Environmental Economics at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (53)
markdown10
verifiable10
limiting10
artifact10
voting10
mkdocs10
publish10
elections10
governance10
specification9
python8
api8
gmail-api8
open-source8
security8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/electionguard-ballot-marking-device
Nov 2019 - Jul 2022
This repository contains code to implement a Ballot Marking Device that uses the ElectionGuard API to encrypt ballots and generate a tracking ID used by the voter to identify their ballot as being counted in the election when results are published.
Contributions:6 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
apiballotselectionguardballotelection
Election-Tech-Initiative/egvote
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
Mkdocs website for information about ElectionGuard pilots
Contributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 1 push in 10 days
mkdocselectionguardmarkdown
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