Carter Fort
Senior Software Engineer (SRE) at Google
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolCarter Fort is a Senior Software Engineer (SRE) with 11+ years building web and reliability systems, currently focused on site reliability at Google after joining in 2018. He began in 2008 as a WordPress tinkerer and evolved into a full-stack Laravel developer and tech lead who thrives on shipping practical tooling and integrations. At Google he has driven News partner integrations and internal reliability programs, while also organizing community-facing initiatives like a K–12 teacher tech conference and a company BJJ club. His background includes running a one-person consultancy, leading design and engineering teams, and repeated front-end work with Vue.js. Carter combines entrepreneurial grit with large-scale systems experience, comfortable toggling between developer, consultant, and SRE mindsets. Based in Pittsburgh, he habitually returns to Laravel as his development home even while working across cloud-scale reliability challenges.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Mass Communications Concentration in Digital Media, Mass Communications Concentration in Digital Media at Middle Tennessee State UniversityGould Academy
Stackoverflow
973reputation
269kreached
18answers
7questions
laravel
top-5%
Github Skills (27)
laravel9
queue8
bull7
nodejs7
mongodb6
mobile6
mongodb-query6
php6
sdk6
redis-sentinel6
scheduled-tasks6
ios6
eloquent6
redis6
redis-client5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
carterfort/site-archiver
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:36 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
carterfort/pgh-blotter
Jun 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 33 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
policelaravelphplaravel-app
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