Carter A
Staff Software Engineer at Neynar
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolCarter A is a Staff Software Engineer in Seattle with 13 years building high‑scale, user‑facing products that bridge people and complex technology. He’s shipped resilient systems under extreme load—from Airbnb’s customer service chatbot that absorbed a 100x surge at the start of COVID to Clanker, a 4‑person startup he co‑built that handled $8B in first‑year volume and was acquired twice. His work spans backend, frontend, SDKs, data pipelines, smart contracts, and production LLM agents, including the first production account‑abstracted wallets holding $30M at Warbler Labs and a custom multi‑model router for LLM tool use. Carter focuses on minimal, user‑observed iterations—designing the smallest viable system, watching real users, and rapidly improving it—and now seeks to apply that product‑centric approach to AI. An underrated strength is his ability to translate developer and LLM needs into consumable SDKs and deterministic on‑chain primitives, enabling others to build on his platforms.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
3,063reputation
219kreached
97answers
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Github Skills (35)
testing9
solidity9
foundry9
portable9
tooling9
voting9
solc9
blockchain9
ethereum9
bluetooth-low-energy9
smart-contracts9
rust8
fuzzing8
monorepo8
alloy8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
CarterAppleton/DatasAndAlgos
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:26 pushes in 7 days
CarterAppleton/Win10BTAdvViewer
May 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:2 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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