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certifications:
  - Linux+
  - LPIC-1 Linux Administrator
  - Security+
  - Network+
clearance: Active DoD Secret clearance
contacts:
  - icon: bi:telephone-fill
    label: (860) 726-6992
    href: tel:+18607266992
  - icon: bi:envelope-fill
    label: cpgrimmeisen@gmail.com
    href: mailto:cpgrimmeisen@gmail.com
  - icon: bi:github
    label: c-orter
    href: https://github.com/c-orter
    external: true
  - icon: bi:linkedin
    label: carter-grimmeisen
    href: https://linkedin.com/in/carter-grimmeisen
    external: true
  - icon: bi:globe2
    label: cartergrimmeisen.com
    href: https://cartergrimmeisen.com
    external: true
    printOnly: true
education:
  - completed: Expected 2027
    degree: MS Computer Science
    institution: University of Alabama in Huntsville
    gpa: '4.0'
  - completed: May 2022
    degree: BS Computer Science
    institution: University of Alabama in Huntsville
    gpa: '4.0'
experience:
  - position: Principal Software Engineer
    period: May&nbsp;2026 - Present
    company: Technical Consulting Solutions
    note: Subcontractor to Northrop Grumman
    groups:
      - bullets:
          - 'Develop software for a large, fielded Ada codebase as part of a 10-12 person team'
          - 'Built a web-based log analysis tool that processes run logs as they arrive on the log server, giving developers and testers visibility into system behavior and exposing a class of slowdowns behind timeouts and failures'
          - Own vulnerability scanning and metrics reporting for the codebase
  - position: Lead Software Engineer
    period: June&nbsp;2022 - May&nbsp;2026
    company: CFD Research Corp.
    groups:
      - heading: Leadership
        bullets:
          - 'Led a 3-person team within an 8-10 person engineering group; conducted performance reviews, mentored engineers, interviewed candidates, and matched staff to projects'
          - 'Served as technical lead on greenfield SBIR projects ($800K-$6M) for scientific customers, owning requirements, planning, delivery, and customer reviews across mobile, web, ML, and DevOps work'
          - 'Authored the technical approach (architecture, design, implementation plan) for ~6 proposals and presented it in customer Q&A; 3 won outright and 1 advanced as a joint effort, and the resulting expertise supported a separate ~$10M award'
          - 'Managed customer scope and expectations by negotiating phased delivery, proposing alternatives when approaches fell short, and communicating revised timelines when schedules slipped'
      - heading: Delivery
        bullets:
          - 'Reduced ML training time from ~8 hours to under 30 minutes (20x throughput) by moving a 200K-sample dataset into SQLite/DuckDB and implementing a custom PyTorch dataloader'
          - 'Designed and built a web-based simulation platform for ~12 scientists, replacing manual script-and-CSV workflows with run configuration, job monitoring, and results visualization (Postgres job queue, custom scheduler, role-based access control); automated CI/CD so scientists could release code and configuration updates independently'
          - 'Led development of an offline-first React Native mobile app with cloud sync and 2D/3D visualization (VTK.js) for blast overpressure exposure, used by soldiers and trainers across dozens of devices'
        full:
          - 'Led a cross-functional team of scientists and developers to parallelize, package, and document a space-weather simulation toolkit for HPC deployment'
          - Developed the real-time monitoring and configuration web UI (SvelteKit) for a spin-out company&rsquo;s software-defined firewall product
          - 'Built a Python application packager and custom Python distribution builder to streamline licensing, compilation, and deployment of internal applications and libraries (Python, Docker)'
          - Delivered 3D visualization and web scraping projects for scientist teams
          - 'Developed agentic coding workflows (reusable skills, coding standards, setup documentation) and deployed self-hosted open models for cost-sensitive and air-gapped environments'
  - position: 'Software Engineer, Intern'
    period: May&nbsp;2020 - May&nbsp;2022
    company: Northrop Grumman
    groups:
      - bullets:
          - 'Automated an ~18-hour biweekly vulnerability-scan and metrics reporting process, eliminating recurring engineering effort'
          - 'Developed an Ada mocking framework to enable unit testing of a legacy codebase on a 7-8 person DevOps team'
        full:
          - Maintained build and CI/CD pipelines for the team
  - position: Software Developer
    period: March&nbsp;2017 - May&nbsp;2020
    company: 'Avilution, LLC.'
    groups:
      - bullets:
          - 'Owned architecture, deployment, and support as one of two engineers at an early-stage avionics startup'
          - 'Built a drag-and-drop display designer (Electron, Vue.js, TypeScript) with dozens of configurable widgets and aircraft configuration management, a key product selling point'
          - Implemented ECDSA signing for flight-critical configurations and contributed to core avionics software in C
        full:
          - Developed low-level hardware drivers and a custom embedded Yocto build for an avionics-as-software platform
name: Carter Grimmeisen
projects:
  - name: zod-prisma
    technologies: 'TypeScript, Prisma, Zod'
    description: 'Open-source library that generates Zod validation schemas from Prisma data models. <strong>900+ GitHub stars</strong>, <strong>2.3M lifetime downloads</strong>.'
    github: https://github.com/CarterGrimmeisen/zod-prisma
    npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/zod-prisma
skills:
  - category: Languages
    items: 'Python, TypeScript, Ada, Rust, C++, Bash'
    full: 'Java, C#, Kotlin, C, HTML/CSS/JS'
  - category: Frameworks and Tools
    items: 'React Native, Flutter, Vue.js, SvelteKit, Node.js, PyTorch, PostgreSQL, SQLite/DuckDB, Docker, CI/CD, Git'
    full: 'Express.js, Flask, Plotly Dash, MPI, React, Svelte, Electron, GitLab, GitHub, Docker Compose, MongoDB, Conda, Cython'
  - category: AI-Assisted Development
    items: 'Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, agent skills and workflows, self-hosted open models'
title: Software Engineer