Paul Charlton
Founder at Stealth Startup.iot
Earth, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Charlton is a founder and turnaround technologist who spends decades rescuing stalled, unsellable products and converting unmanaged complexity into reliable revenue. He pairs hands-on systems work with executive coaching, having modernized core platforms at Apple QuickTime, Intuit QuickBooks, Cisco IOS, Sun JavaFX and large federal systems to restore performance, compliance, and market viability. Skilled at collapsing technical debt and rebuilding architectures in-flight, he routinely delivers dramatic performance gains and restarts teams frozen by legacy integrations or organizational myths. As a serial founder and fractional CTO he bridges product, sales, and engineering to translate commercial pain into technical truth and fast outcomes. He contributes to open-source projects like Apptainer and maintains multiple ventures focused on IoT, cloud, and low-latency systems, reflecting a rare mix of deep systems engineering and business-first pragmatism. Based in Texas with a long history from RPI to Wall Street trading systems, he thrives where code-level truth collides with strategic revenue risk.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Computer Systems Engineering, BS Electrical Computer Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute...
Github Skills (3)
linux10
container10
go10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
apptainer/apptainer
Nov 2021 - Feb 2022
Apptainer: Application containers for Linux
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:102 reviews, 42 commits, 45 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily worked on adding copyright notices to the source code files of the Apptainer project. Their contributions include adding the appropriate copyright information at the beginning of various Go files, specifically targeting files related to system filesystem, signing, remote key servers, and command-line interfaces. They also resolved merge conflicts and updated the codebase with the latest commits from the main branch, ensuring the codebase is up-to-date.
containerssciencesingularitylinuxrootless-containers
ResultsByIQ/apptainer
Nov 2021 - Jun 2024
Singularity: Application containers for Linux
Contributions:4 PRs, 18 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 7 months
containerssingularitylinuxpodmandocker
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