Cary P
Distinguished Software Architect at Self Financial, Inc.
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorCary P is a distinguished software architect based in Santa Barbara with two decades of hands-on experience building and scaling high-throughput, regulated fintech platforms and cloud-native infrastructure. He has led migrations to AWS, redesigned CI/CD to cut build times from hours to minutes, and architected payment and ETL pipelines that processed hundreds of millions monthly while preserving sub-0.1% user impact. Comfortable from embedded real-time systems to IoT and large-scale web services, he pairs deep systems-level expertise (C/C++, Linux, real-time) with modern cloud automation and observability practices. Cary blends leadership roles—VP Engineering and Chief Architect—with active technical contribution, including early involvement with Chef and sustained open-source work visible on his GitHub. Known for pragmatic, reliability-first designs, he consistently turns complex regulatory and scalability requirements into auditable, production-ready systems.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (53)
ipmi9
esxi9
vcenter9
redfish8
virtualbox8
hyper-v8
cloud-init7
credit7
libvirt7
payment-gateway7
payment7
ovirt7
paypal7
multiple-languages6
docker6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
caryp-contrib/ephemeral_lvm
May 2018 - Aug 2021
Configures available ephemeral devices on a cloud server
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 3 years 3 months
ephemeralesxidevice-managementcloud-serverhyper-v
caryp/minecraft-adventure-server
May 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
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