Jerrod Carpenter
Principal Engineer at Underdog Fantasy
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolJerrod Carpenter is a Principal Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable web and infrastructure systems, currently shaping platform and product engineering at Underdog Fantasy. He progressed through technical and managerial roles—from Senior Engineer to Engineering Manager and Staff Engineer—bringing a pragmatic blend of hands-on coding and team leadership. His background at Cerner includes designing in-house infrastructure-as-a-service and integrations with proprietary systems, reflecting deep experience in backend services and reliability. Comfortable across the full stack, he pairs responsive front-end sensibilities with global infrastructure automation. Known for tackling hard problems with humility, he seeks elegant, maintainable solutions and is energized by the next challenge.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
General Education, General Education at Metropolitan Community College-Maple WoodsUniversity of Missouri
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Github Skills (102)
mvc10
ruby10
ruby-client10
rake10
audit-trail10
client-library10
bull10
feature-toggle10
api10
html10
rollout10
audit10
rails10
icontrol10
redisearch10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Underdog-Inc/underdog_ruby_style
Feb 2023 - Apr 2024
Underdog Ruby Style Guide and Linters
Contributions:3 releases, 5 reviews, 8 PRs in 1 year 1 month
textlintlinterslintlinterstyle-guide
cerner/icontrol_rest
Oct 2017 - Feb 2021
IcontrolRest provides a simple client to interact with Icontrol.
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 10 commits in 3 years 4 months
icontrolinteract
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