Ben Carpenter

Leadership through software engineering expertise and authentic relationships

Richardson, Texas, United States

About

With strengths in design, creativity, and communication, I excel at getting to the root of a project’s needs and meeting those requirements efficiently. I manage software development projects from the initial requirement gathering and design, through development and testing, and on to end user support. Complex processes and areas of integration present unique puzzles I enjoy solving. Depending on the audience, I am equally at ease digging into technical details of functionality or summarizing complex workflows at a high level. I am seeking a role where I can leverage my technical skills as well as my experience designing workflows and processes. Experienced in supervising other team members, I would be interested in a role that includes management responsibilities, in addition to technical hands on work. Specialties: Application Development

Experience

  • Director of Web Engineering at D.R. Horton
    Jan 2026 - Present · 6 mos

  • Director, Digital Engineering at FIS
    Sep 2024 - Jun 2025 · 10 mos

  • Bottle Rocket (Full-time · 7 yrs)
    • Senior Director of Engineering
      Sep 2022 - Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      Technology leader responsible for web, API integration, and native iOS development. Striving to empower engineers to do their best work daily whatever their experience level, tech stack of choice, or global geography.

    • Director of Engineering - API Integration & Web at Bottle Rocket
      May 2022 - Oct 2022 · 6 mos

    • Director of Web Engineering
      Oct 2017 - May 2022 · 4 yrs 8 mos

  • Web Application Development Team Lead at Earthling Interactive
    Sep 2015 - Sep 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    As a team lead for application development my responsibilities include developing web and mobile applications, giving input on project architecture and estimates, interviewing developer candidates, and managing a team of 5 developers (local and remote). Since Earthling Interactive is a custom development firm, we get a chance to work with many different technologies but the bulk of my development recently has been in Node.js, React, React Native, and Redux. I really enjoy working with our clients to take their projects from ideas to a functioning products.

  • Senior Software Developer at TURIS Systems, LLC
    Jul 2014 - Sep 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos

    As a lead developer on the team behind AkitaBox.com, I continually strive to give our users simple and intuitive, yet powerful tools for facility information management. In addition to web design and development, my responsibilities include interviewing and mentoring new developers and interns, reviewing code changes, providing technical support to our business development team, and shaping policies around our project management and design workflows.