Clayton Schuler

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Experience

1. 2025 – present

   Capital One

   Lead Software Engineer / Tech Lead
   • Technical lead across three engineering teams (18 engineers) responsible for enterprise platform observability supporting 5,000+ internal applications and petabytes of telemetry data.
   • Implemented an OpenTelemetry collection pipeline processing 100–300 TB daily, sub-20-second end-to-end from collect through transform to an Apache Iceberg datalake.
   • Architected a multi-agent AI incident-analysis platform (LangGraph, ReAct-style reasoning), reducing incident resolution time from 96 minutes to 36 minutes.
   • Led migration of enterprise monitoring from New Relic to Observe Inc, reducing ~500,000 monitors to ~150 parameterized monitors (~95% less maintenance overhead).
   • Designed unbounded-scale AI pipeline infrastructure for hundreds of parallel data streams, with three caching layers in the inference path; deployed self-hosted open-weight LLMs on Fargate/Kubernetes.
   • Led a genAI pilot pod building an Observability MCP server; designed a serverless gateway backing CI/CD for 5,000+ applications.
   • Delivered "Taming the LLM Bottleneck" at Async Live 2026 (national engineering conference); first place, national Capital One GenAI Hackathon — funded to production; directed the AI second-brain initiative across a 1,700-person vertical.
   backed by → the observability writeup
2. 2024 – present

   PrimeMaxing

   Founder / Technical Lead
   • Built an AI-driven health analytics platform interpreting blood biomarker data.
   • Designed HIPAA-conscious architecture — React, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and LLM analysis pipelines — with multi-tenant clinic infrastructure for patient and clinician workflows.
   • Persistent-memory LLM with smart context injection over MCP, on PII-sanitized chats; LLM-as-judge regression testing for prompt optimization.
   • Running a pilot deployment with a partner clinic; conducting product demos with healthcare organizations.
   backed by → the PrimeMaxing writeup
3. 2022 – 2025

   Clearpool Group

   Associate Software Developer
   • Developed distributed systems supporting low-latency trading infrastructure (<10µs latency targets).
   • Built components of a custom order management system processing high-volume market data.
   • Implemented messaging infrastructure with Kafka, gRPC, UDP, and Chronicle Queue; designed sharded relational databases optimized for high-performance writes with S3 archival.
4. 2021 – 2022

   Independent Algorithmic Trading Platform

   Designer / Operator
   • Designed a probabilistic trading platform executing $10M+ in options trades.
   • Built real-time market data ingestion from multiple broker APIs; statistical signal generation in Python and pandas.
   backed by → the OMS project
5. 2020 – 2022

   Health Restored

   Software Developer
   • Built clinical biomarker analysis software automating lab interpretation and physician reports.
6. 2016 – 2017

   Cryptocurrency AlgoTrader

   Co-Founder
   • Built a multi-exchange cryptocurrency arbitrage trading system on cross-market price discrepancies.
   backed by → the arbitrage project

Research

1. 2015 – 2016

   Emerald Cloud Lab

   Senior Lab Scientist
   • Designed and automated robotic DNA & PNA synthesis, cell culture, and molecular experimentation.
2. 2013 – 2015

   Akina Virology Lab

   Research Associate
   • Published research on viral vector engineering and gene therapy systems in Virology, 2016.

Education

• Colorado State University — B.S. Biomedical Science (Highest Honors, Dean's List, Keynote Speaker)
• Stanford Online — Algorithm Design
• Udacity — Data Analysis

Skills