Shelly Carpenter is an engineering director with 11+ years of leadership experience building and scaling consumer-facing web and mobile platforms, most notably owning core systems for Amazon Flex that supported billions of global offers per day. She combines deep technical expertise in large-scale distributed systems, ML-driven pricing, and UX-informed product roadmaps with a track record of reducing production severity and improving system quality by an order of magnitude. Shelly has repeatedly built teams from scratch—scaling to 50+ engineers—with strong retention and promotion rates while leading cross-functional launches across multiple countries and programs. Her startup experience includes creating a machine-learning pricing intelligence product that drove a lucrative acquisition, showing she can turn technical innovation into strategic value. Equally comfortable in hands-on architecture and people leadership, she automates operational workflows and productionizes ML to accelerate market expansion. Based in Erie, Colorado, she brings a pragmatic, empathetic leadership style that emphasizes mentorship, transparency, and measurable business impact.
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.