Carter Gawron is a seasoned engineering leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling cloud and developer infrastructure, currently serving as Director of Engineering at Alation in San Ramon. He has a strong track record leading cross-functional teams focused on cloud foundation, data and app infrastructure, async systems, onboarding, and developer productivity. Previously he led platform, ML, and observability organizations at D2iQ and Mesosphere and ran large-scale operations and SRE teams at Infor, Birst, and Twitter. Carter combines hands-on systems expertise—from provisioning and fleet management to Kubernetes-based workloads—with strategic program leadership that improves developer velocity and reliability. He holds a BA in Philosophy from USC, a background that informs his pragmatic, systems-thinking approach to complex technical problems. Colleagues often note his ability to translate operational complexity into repeatable engineering practices that scale across teams.
7 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BA Philosophy, BA Philosophy at University of Southern California
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