Summary
Evan Schalton is a hands-on engineering leader and founder with a decade of experience building agentic platforms, finance ledgers, and automation that turns manual, high-cost processes into scalable systems. He has led finance engineering at Hopper and modernized trading and SaaS back-office systems, combining self-documenting architectures, typed API contracts, and CI/CD guardrails to measurably improve developer velocity and reliability. Evan specializes in making complexity invisible—designing reconciliation and ETL pipelines, async processing, and performance-tracked teams that have achieved zero voluntary separations over a multi-year tenure. As a fractional CTO and Principal Consultant he partners with large firms to refactor legacy systems, enforce testing discipline, and lift delivery through mentorship and governance. He pairs an uncommon blend of finance-domain engineering and operational rigor with a founder’s curiosity for productivity tooling and democratizing institutional knowledge.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Babson F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business
Bachelor of Science (BS) Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Mathematics at University of North Carolina at Charlotte
High School Advance Placement, High School Advance Placement at Walter Hines Page High School