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Weston Carpenter - Software Engineer II in San Francisco, CA

Weston Carpenter

Mid-level Backend Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems

GrubhubUC BerkeleySan Francisco, CA6 Years ExperienceMid LevelWorks On-Site

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Technical/presales engineer with experience at Grubhub and Appen, spanning LLM-adjacent data labeling workflows and production AI troubleshooting. Built an integrations platform at Grubhub and has hands-on experience diagnosing prompt-related AI failures via Splunk, adding JUnit tests and logging to prevent recurrence. Known for shipping customer-specific workflow adaptations (e.g., OCR annotation coordinate transformations for crop/rotation) while keeping timelines intact through iterative delivery and parallelization.

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Key Strengths

  • Translated enterprise customer workflow requirements into platform capabilities via ops/engineering collaboration
  • Iterative delivery management (weekly pilots and syncs) to build trust and ensure data quality
  • Designed a coordinate transformation approach to support image crop/rotation without rebuilding the data pipeline
  • Maintained timelines by parallelizing preprocessing and annotation workstreams
  • Diagnosed LLM/prompt issues using Splunk logs; implemented fixes plus JUnit tests and added logging to prevent regressions
  • Tailors technical demos to developer priorities (reliability, observability, maintainability) using focused visuals and a single use case
  • Presales execution: built client workflows with unshipped internal tools to help close deals while controlling scope amid sales overpromises

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Experience

Software Engineer IIGrubhub · Aug 2023 – Present
Software Engineer IGrubhub · Apr 2022 – Aug 2023
Solutions EngineerGrubhub · Aug 2021 – Apr 2022
Solutions EngineerAppen · Feb 2020 – Aug 2021

Education

UC Berkeleybootcamp, Web Development (2019)
Kenyon Collegebachelor, Mathematics; Music (2019)

Languages

English

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Weston CarpenterMid-level Backend Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems