# Carson Shaar

> Senior Software Engineer at Vellum

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/carsonshaar

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Vellum
Jan 2025 – Present | New York, New York, United States

### CTO, Co-Founder @ Zero-True
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | New York, New York, United States
• Designed and developed an open-source Python notebook for data scientists and engineers (GitHub)
• Built a cloud-based development environment orchestration system on AWS and Kubernetes, leveraging Terraform and CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment
• Implemented a custom role-based access control (RBAC) system to manage user permissions across secure, multi-tenant development environments
• Led a team of designers, frontend developers, backend engineers, and DevOps specialists through Agile methodologies to accelerate the development of our platform
• Established a security-first engineering mindset, aligning development processes with SOC2, ISO27001, and other compliance standards.
• Conducted user research to refine the product roadmap, improve developer experience, and prioritize high-impact features
• Developed go-to-market strategy, financial forecasting models, fundraising plans, and much more
• Secured early customer contracts from multiple data science teams and grew a waitlist to over 1000 users for our cloud platform
• Accepted into two New York based accelerators: Antler and Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator

### Founder in Residence @ Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States

### Founder in Residence @ Antler
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States

### Associate Software Engineer @ Publicis Sapient
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States
•	Developed and maintained customer communication platform for a Fortune 100 retailer, encompassing multiple microservices and distributed systems
•	Designed reactive Spring Boot based microservices to handle hundreds of thousands of transactions a day, including integration with MongoDB, Apache Kafka, multiple Azure based services, and other internal and external API based integrations
•	Developed novel solutions for new third-party integrations, working directly with vendor developer teams to ensure proper security and support for our applications 
•	Worked with site reliability and devops teams to ensure application resilience, coordinate deployments, and triage production issues
•	Led initiatives for new feature development within an agile framework, representing our team in planning and sizing meetings
•	Trained and reviewed work of new developers added to our team, ensuring best practices and high code quality

### Intern @ Publicis Sapient
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
•	Developed a social listening tool to identify trends in the news about specified products and evaluate articles to measure sentiment and keyword association
•	Worked as a project manager to coordinate presentations and organize workflow at every sprint transition
•	Developed an Alexa skill to create a more dynamic automated response system for customer service centers

### Intern @ Photon Kinetics
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | Beaverton, OR
•	Wrote new projects in C to add to the existing functionality of the PIC microprocessors used to control the shipped products
•	Ported projects from the MPLAB IDE with the C18 compiler to the MPLAB X IDE with the XC8 compiler in order to modernize PIC microprocessor code
•	Redesigned assembly instructions to improve productivity and efficiency.
•	Communicated with multiple companies in order to document European compliance and develop systems for future compliance evaluation.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Cornell University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2020


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/carson-shaar
- Website: https://zero-true.com/

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Last updated: 2026-04-01