Summary
Kevin Carter is a Senior Software Engineer with 16 years of experience who currently focuses on platform engineering at Fleetio, bringing deep expertise in maintaining and modernizing complex web and payment systems. He excels at digging into large legacy codebases to restore test suites, reduce error rates, and implement features without regressions, evidenced by prior work cutting daily errors from ~200 to ~10 and migrating services to AWS Fargate with Terraform-driven deployments. Kevin balances code simplicity with user experience, performance, reliability, and scalability, and has hands-on experience across CI/CD, background job optimization, and payment integrations like Google Pay and Apple Pay. Comfortable across Ruby/Rails and multi-language stacks, he has a track record of automating infrastructure, improving throughput (5x in one role), and enabling remote-team collaboration through tooling and process improvements. Based in Layton, Utah, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a long-term view that prioritizes maintainability and measurable operational wins.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Technical, Multimedia Design, Technical, Multimedia Design at Ogden-Weber Applied Technology College
Associates, Multimedia Communication Technology, Associates, Multimedia Communication Technology at Utah Valley University