Randal Schwartz
General Manager at Starship Sofa
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolRandal Schwartz is a veteran software engineer and general manager with 28 years of experience delivering pragmatic solutions in Perl, Dart/Flutter, Smalltalk, Unix, and web application security from Portland, Oregon. He runs Stonehenge Consulting Services, providing Dart/Flutter consulting while historically leading training teams, authoring O'Reilly titles, and developing courseware for Fortune 500 clients. Comfortable in both legacy-code triage and modern mobile stacks, he has a track record of refactoring large Perl systems, stabilizing high-volume infrastructure, and shipping production Flutter apps. Beyond engineering, he is an experienced technical writer, trainer, podcaster and voice actor—skills he leverages to distill complexity for teams and audiences. His career blends hands-on hacking with content creation and community stewardship (board roles in Squeak and LinuxFund), reflecting a rare mix of technical depth and communication craft. An autodidact at heart, he’s equally at home debugging a decades-old codebase and producing a polished media piece.
28 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Non-matriculating, Advanced Calculus and Computer Science, Non-matriculating, Advanced Calculus and Computer Science at University of PortlandHigh School Diploma, Math, Science, Journalism, High School Diploma, Math, Science, Journalism at Colton High School
Spanish, perl
Stackoverflow
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787answers
11questions
perl
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ssh-keys
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git
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ssh
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dart
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flutter
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Github Skills (200)
procedure10
libgit210
mobile-development10
realtime10
windows10
ssh-keys10
fp-ts10
publish10
visual-studio10
subversion10
dart2js10
riverpod10
firebase10
ssh10
auth10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
RandalSchwartz/randalschwartz.github.io
Jul 2020 - Nov 2023
Contributions:57 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
RandalSchwartz/perl-module-cgi-prototype
Mar 2007 - Jul 2011
Contributions:11 commits in 4 years 5 months
cgiprototypeperlperl-module
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