Ken Carpenter
Cofounder & Chief Technology Officer at FOUNDATION DEVICES
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKen Carpenter is a veteran software leader and CTO with 12+ years of experience building systems-level software, scalable web UIs, and embedded firmware across startups and enterprise teams. He co-founded Foundation Devices and has led architecture and implementation efforts at companies from Arista and ServiceNow to Hudson River Trading and Obelisk, spanning C/C++ device drivers and protocols to TypeScript/React data visualizations. Ken blends hands-on engineering—shipping ASIC miner firmware, network telemetry UIs, and metadata-driven UI components—with people leadership, having managed teams of 10+ and driven product-led sales in startup settings. His work consistently bridges low-level performance-sensitive systems and polished front-end experiences, and he’s a named inventor on a networking-related patent. Based in San Francisco, he’s known for pragmatic creativity—his GitHub tagline, “Laziness is mother of creativity,” captures his focus on elegant automation and efficient design.
12 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Mission Viejo High SchoolBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
Github Skills (20)
lita9
slack-bot8
adapter6
typeface6
slack5
opentype4
chatops4
ruby4
ufo4
developer-tools3
fonts3
relic2
machine-learning2
google-fonts2
nlp2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kenjij/firebase-ruby
Jul 2017 - Apr 2021
Contributions:1 release, 28 commits, 13 pushes in 3 years 9 months
kenjij/kajiki
Feb 2015 - Jan 2020
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch, 6 tags in 4 years 11 months
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