Carter Himmel

CARTER HIMMELsoftware engineer · austin, texas · carter@fyko.net

Howdy! I'm Carter, a software engineer based in Austin, Texas. I love spending time with friends, rock climbing, and drinking a local IPA. I also got my genome sequenced and turned it into a 3D thing you can spin around.

I'm currently enjoying myself over at Hello Patient - we're building a platform to get clinical staff off the phone and in front of patients. Before this, I worked at Truffle and founded Sycer Development back in December 2019, where I built Discord bots for sneaker "cook groups" (wild times).

Tech I Work With

I'm a generalist and jump across the stack from full-stack product features to wrangling Kubernetes upgrades to scaling databases. Some of the technologies I enjoy include Postgres, Rust, TypeScript, Bun, Kubernetes, Argo, Cloudflare, GitHub Actions, and agentic programming.

Carter Himmel

software engineer · hello patient

carter@fyko.net

austin, tx · fyko.net

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Hello Patient October 2024 - Present

Software Engineer · Austin, TX

Truffle July 2022 - October 2024

Software Engineer · Golden, CO + Remote

  • Engineered Scyllax, a Rust-based query framework for Scylla, implementing coalescing and a standard public API
  • Lead the research, development and deployment of Hypha, a gRPC layer standardizing access to our Scylla database clusters
  • Spearhead a company-wide migration from JavaScript to TypeScript, including microservices, web apps, APIs, and public packages
  • Manage and foster healthy development standards with linting, formatting and code modules

PUSHAS June 2021 - July 2022

Software Engineer · Culver City, CA + Remote

  • Built a warehouse management API utilizing AWS CodePipelines and Lambda, eliminating the need for a web server
  • Researched and tested various infrastructure and programming tools to draft specifications and plan project goals
  • Coordinated with Customer Support to build the necessary infrastructure for a support dashboard with Retool

Sycer Development May 2019 - April 2022

Founder · Remote

  • Engineered an enterprise B2C subscriptions system that delivered half-a-million SMS alerts to 25,000 registered users
  • Implemented automated recurring subscription and payment processing using Stripe
  • Implement Prometheus, Loki, and Grafana to collect and display analytical data aiding in the resolution of outages
  • Conducted business management duties, including filing founding documents, conducting interviews and managing finances

↳ the rest of the tapes are in the shoebox

side a · Sep 28, 2026 · 90 minI complain about AI slop. I also ship it.
side b · Sep 1, 2026 · 90 minWhy did I rush?
sample 001: my genome →