Summary
Joseph Carnahan is a seasoned software engineering manager with 13 years of production experience, currently leading a global team responsible for the availability, latency, and maintainability of Google's Search Next Serving Infrastructure. He progressed from technical lead roles building A/B experimentation, integration testing, and benchmarking tools to managing cross-team efforts that proactively mitigate risks in the middle layer of Search and Assistant serving stacks. Comfortable in both hands-on engineering and orchestration, he has a background in high-stakes security and research systems dating back to work at the Naval Surface Warfare Center and university simulation research. Based in Reading, Massachusetts, Joseph brings a pragmatic systems-thinking approach informed by early experience integrating financial analytics platforms and designing intrusion-detection and secure host systems.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master's, Computer Science, Master's, Computer Science at University of Virginia
BS, Computer Science, Religion, BS, Computer Science, Religion at William & Mary