Enterprise AI & Software Delivery
How AI changes engineering workflows, developer experience, governance, and the SDLC — without the hype.
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Vinny Carpenter
I write about enterprise AI, platform engineering, and the leadership behind shipping at scale.
Vice President of Engineering at a Fortune 100 company, leading Cloud, Platform & DevOps. Thirty-plus years across financial services, insurance, manufacturing, and education — and a 95%+ team retention rate — keep me grounded in what actually ships.
vinny.jpg · 202643.0389° N, 87.9065° W// years building
30+
financial services · insurance · manufacturing
// VP Engineering
F100
cloud, platform & DevOps
// team retention
95%+
across multiple orgs and reorgs
// essays published
45
and counting · weekly
recent essays
Recent essays
- 15 min
AI Did Not Configure My Network. It Helped Me Understand It.
★ai-strategy · claude-code · networking
- 25 min
Spec, Standards, Specialists: How I Actually Build with AI
★ai-coding · engineering-leadership · claude-code
- 18 min
Claude Code Is a Build System, Not a Chatbot
★ai-coding · engineering-leadership · claude-code
- 5 min
I Built a Design System in Two Hours. Figma, We Should Talk.
★ai-strategy · design · engineering-leadership
- 17 min
The Agentic SDLC: Uniting the AI Tool Sprawl
★ai-strategy · ai-coding · ai-sdlc
what i write about
Four lanes I come back to
Engineering Leadership
How leaders create clarity, trust, accountability, and teams that actually stay together.
Platform Engineering & Cloud
How large organizations build internal platforms, reduce cognitive load, and improve delivery speed.
Building in Public
Lessons from shipping real apps, running frontier models locally, and learning by doing.
// new here?
Four curated reading paths
Whether you lead, build, or just want to understand how I think — there's a way in.