Summary
Ed Carrel is a versatile founding engineer with 16 years of hands-on experience building reliable systems across infrastructure, data, and product teams. He’s shipped core catalog and data-pipeline work at Instacart, helped scale Brex’s infrastructure and compliance efforts as an early hire, and most recently led platform and product engineering across startups and venture investments. Comfortable in both compiled and interpreted languages (from C/C++ to Python, Ruby and Common Lisp), he pairs deep systems and sysadmin knowledge with a mathematician’s appetite for combinatorics and logic. A pragmatic builder who also teaches and interviews technical talent, he uniquely blends low-level engineering chops with a track record of turning ad-hoc environments into production-grade, auditable systems.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science Mathematics, BA Computer Science Mathematics at Boston University