Hi, I'm Carlton Schuyler.
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  • Who am I?
  • Whence hail I?

About me

I am a Generalist Software Developer.

Right now I work at VMware Pivotal Labs, which is what happened when Pivotal was purchased by VMware sometime in 2019. I do software development, specializing in architecture and process improvement, and writing distributed applications in the cloud, primarily in Kotlin and Java. I also work in the Education group, including developing and delivering courses on software architecture and development (e.g. the Master Class for Application Architects)

Previously I worked at ThoughtWorks.  It's a great place to work, with the caveat: As a North America employee, get ready to Travel. All. The. Time.

I worked at Rally Software for a good while.  Rally is now Broadcom, and not long before that it was CA.

Before that was a very long time ago, so I'll leave you to my resume to figure it out.

More Tidbits:
  • Stickler about things that matter.  Like: code quality; testing; monitoring; and accountability.
  • At the moment I'm strongest in distributed systems running in the JVM, particularly the parts built using Spring, Java, Kotlin, Clojure, Elm, or React.js; and deployed to somewhere in the cloud.
  • I'm a developer, adept at many Ops-y things, most comfortable in a UNIX-y environment, deploying to somewhere in the cloud which requires minimal DevOps. If I can't get something to production in a few minutes ... then I'm slightly unhappy.
If you asked me what really interests me, though, you'd get some sort of an answer like:
  • Things that deal with unstructured text.
  • Computing with numbers. Preferably lots of them.
  • Visualizing and presenting information.
  • Organizing things (either automatically, or not).
Human Languages fascinate me. As an exercise in combining my interests in collecting/organizing and languages, I've made a site showcasing my collection of polyglot literature

Super-Brief Bio!

I studied Math and Comp Sci (with a large course load in Russian language) at Tufts (outside of lovely Baahston), then got my M.S. in Comp Sci (with a large load of Linguistics coursework - because I specialized in Computational Linguistics), at Ohio State in Columbus.

Now I live in Boulder, which I'd been visiting for years and years prior - finally decided it was time to just move, already.

For a number of years, I lived in Brussels, Belgium.  Those were formative years.

I was born and raised in Oregon.  I mean, before that whole Brussels escapade.

I also lived in Costa Rica (near San José, not at the beach or anything …) for a Load of Years.

Oh yeah - I lived in Budapest for a few months, where I was ostensibly studying math in the BSM program, but in reality was mostly learning Hungarian and railing around Europe.

I also lived and worked in Düsseldorf, Germany, for a couple years. That was AMS's fault (now absorbed by CGI)