A retrospective into how our young company, Scholarly, is working| Kelly Sutton
My name is Kelly Sutton. I’m a software engineer living in Seattle. I’m the CTO and co-founder of Scholarly| Kelly Sutton
Reflections on hiring in 2025| Kelly Sutton
A blog post on housing policy and homelessness in Seattle| Kelly Sutton
This blog post goes into detail on how our company, Scholarly, works. This post should serve as a bit of a memory capsule and a good thing to send potential candidates when they are evaluating us. I hope this blog post is an interesting view into what building B2B SaaS can look like in a way that is traditionally agile: personalized, great software built in cooperation with our customers. No focus on frameworks, tools, or processes. We’re not hiring at the moment but hope to be soon. The co...| Kelly Sutton
After more than 6.5 years at Gusto, I’ve moved on to start a new company. I’m incredibly grateful for the opportunity to work at Gusto and proud of the work we did helping small businesses in the US. The company is better than ever and has an incredibly bright future. We had plenty of fun along the way, breaking apart monoliths or building briefcases that deploy code. What’s next? I’ve teamed up with Rusty Cowher to start building Scholarly. We are building a next generation faculty i...| Kelly Sutton
To better understand large language models (LLMs), I put together a free dream interpreter called Dream Diviner. This post will talk about building the app, LLMs, and reflect on this iteration of AI. AI-pocalypse? AI-mageddon? The past 6 months is not the first time computer scientists and the public have been excited about artificial intelligence. Apple’s Siri received much fanfare when it was included with the iPhone 4S in 2011. Our new future of smart assistants was here, voice was the n...| Kelly Sutton
After 8 years of working with React, I’m parting ways with the technology| Kelly Sutton
A retrospective on making the switch from React to StimulusJS at Scholarly| Kelly Sutton