Scott Carleton
Founder at Dewey Labs
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Carleton is a seasoned technology leader and founder with 15 years of experience building product-focused engineering organizations and developer tooling. He has led teams at scale as Asana’s NYC Site Lead and as VP of Technology at Andela, and co-founded Artsicle—whose personalized discovery engine won NYER's "Best Use of Technology" in 2013 and grew to a global artist directory. Scott combines hands-on backend and DevOps experience (notably contributing to Ruby/Rails projects and deployment tooling) with a track record of creating and integrating high-performing remote engineering teams. Formerly a nuclear engineer, he brings a systems-minded approach to solving complex problems and an interest in iterative abundance—helping others create more effectively. An open-source enthusiast and mentor, he now advises through his consultancy Extra Yarn and runs Dewey Labs, continuing to mix product craft with organizational design.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
English
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Github Skills (29)
api-rest10
delayed-job10
postgresql10
resque10
apidoc10
redis10
api-design10
restful-api10
rubygems10
testing10
capistrano10
rspec10
ruby10
api10
unicorn10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
jrgifford/delayed_paperclip
Dec 2012 - Jul 2016
Process your Paperclip attachments in the background with delayed_job or Resque.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 103 commits, 23 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily worked on enhancing the `delayed_paperclip` library, which processes Paperclip attachments in the background. Their contributions focused on adding features like custom reprocessing images and expanding the URL generation capabilities. The user also addressed issues within the library, refining the codebase to improve functionality and address edge cases. They demonstrated proficiency in modifying core aspects of the library, including attachment processing and URL generation.
resquepaperclipjobattachmentsdelayed-job
rubber/rubber
Jul 2011 - Nov 2013
A capistrano/rails plugin that makes it easy to deploy/manage/scale to various service providers, including EC2, DigitalOcean, vSphere, and bare metal servers.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Scott's contributions primarily focused on automating deployment and infrastructure configuration for the project. This included setting up and managing Resque web tools, configuring Unicorn, and modifying the deployment process for Redis and PostgreSQL extensions. The user also made changes to service management scripts.
bare-metalmetalec2railsproviders
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