Straker Carryer
Senior Principal Product Manager, Technical (Consumer Information Architecture)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStraker Carryer is a Senior Principal Product/Technical Program Manager with 11+ years of experience turning complex distributed systems and identity problems into customer-facing products at scale, currently shaping Zillow’s Consumer Information Architecture and professional identity strategy. A former SDE, he blends deep engineering chops from Amazon and Facebook with cross-functional program leadership to launch multi-brand platforms like ShowingTime+, Zillow Workspace, and Zillow Pro, often rescuing delayed launches and simplifying support operations. He’s known for company-level technical strategy (the first Sr Principal TPM at Zillow), pragmatic runbooks for million-user migrations, and culturally shifting metrics that drove a persistent reduction in support volume. A PhD candidate and solo game developer on GitHub, he writes contrarian long-form essays on TPM/Product tensions and mentors aspiring TPMs. Triple-citizen and TBI survivor, he’s open to senior technical roles across Product, Architecture, or CTO of smaller companies and brings uncommon resilience—the literal story of “two skulls”—to leadership and volunteer work.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Undecided Honor's Program, Bachelor's degree Undecided Honor's Program at The George Washington UniversityBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
English
Github Skills (10)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
strakerak/ClassroomBlueprint
Jun 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:45 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
strakerak/6353Team18
Jun 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:11 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
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