Vinny Carpenter has spent more than thirty years building software and leading engineering and platform organizations across financial services, insurance, manufacturing, investment management, and education.

He is a Vice President of Engineering at a Fortune 100 company, leading Cloud, Platform & DevOps. He continues to build and publish his own applications and open-source tools, using that hands-on work to test his ideas about AI-assisted development, engineering systems, and leadership.

Vinny is the author of The Bottleneck Is Never the Stack: Building Software in the Agentic Era. He writes at vinny.dev and lives in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area.
