Zachary Carpenter
Manager, Lead Software Engineer at Capital One
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZachary Carpenter is a results-driven software leader with 10 years of experience building resilient cloud services, data pipelines, and embedded systems, now leading engineering at Capital One. He blends hands-on engineering—from authoring an entire embedded firmware stack for an environmental monitoring startup to designing data lineage, observability, and Kafka-driven systems at scale—with operational rigor learned in the US Army. At Microsoft he improved continuity and security for Windows Package Manager services and executed zero-downtime tenant migrations, demonstrating strong platform and security instincts. Known for stepping into product ownership gaps, he translates complex business needs into testable technical plans and governance-ready solutions. Based in Dallas, he pairs a BS in Computer Science & Software Engineering with real-world leadership in austere environments, bringing an unusual mix of field-tested tenacity and enterprise platform craftsmanship.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts and Sciences - AAS Concentration Mathematics, Associate of Arts and Sciences - AAS Concentration Mathematics at Bellevue CollegeAssociate of Applied Science - AS Intelligence Operations Concentration Human Intelligence Collection, Associate of Applied Science - AS Intelligence Operations Concentration Human Intelligence Collection at Cochise CollegeBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Software Engineering Minor Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Software Engineering Minor Mathematics at University of Washington Bothell
Github Skills (23)
microsoft10
windows10
reference-implementation10
windows-package-manager10
manifest10
windows-service10
api10
rest10
mdt10
command-line10
powershell10
winget10
rest-api10
package-manager10
cli10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/winget-cli-restsource
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
This project aims to provide a reference implementation for creating a REST based package source for the winget client.
Contributions:4 releases, 56 reviews, 29 commits in 2 years 4 months
apipackage-basedrestaimsrest-api
zachcarp/winget-cli
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
Windows Package Manager CLI (aka winget)
Contributions:5 pushes, 6 branches in 1 month
windows-package-managerwindowspackage-managerwingetcli
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