George Carrette
Staff Software Engineer at Wayfair
Concord, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolGeorge Carrette is a Staff Software Engineer with 19 years of experience architecting resilient, data-driven systems and leading high-pressure infra and operations efforts at Wayfair. His background spans enterprise data management, application integration and internet advertising, with earlier roles building ad-serving platforms at Monster and PLM solutions for manufacturing clients. A longtime Lisp hacker and creator of the embeddable SIOD interpreter, he blends deep computer-science foundations from MIT with practical, low-level debugging and big-data engineering—comfortable from scripted gdb dives to designing search and recommendation architectures. He also has a history of teaching AI programming and serving as an expert witness, reflecting a rare mix of academic rigor, hands-on craftsmanship, and applied domain expertise.
19 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (68)
zookeeper10
service-discovery10
database10
configuration-management10
distributed-systems10
apache10
java10
distributed-lock10
consensus10
key-value10
validation9
gossip9
apache-flink9
apache-zookeeper9
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gjcarrette/siod
Apr 2007 - Apr 2014
Contributions:14 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 7 years
gjcarrette/crashme
Nov 2017 - Mar 2022
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 4 months
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