My career has never followed a perfectly conventional path.
It has been built through curiosity, persistence, practical problem solving, and a willingness to keep learning when the next challenge required a new skill.
For more than three decades I have worked around live entertainment, technology, operations, audio, video, automation, production systems, and large-scale technical environments. Some of that work happened in theatres. Some happened in arenas. Some happened in control rooms. Some happened behind the scenes where the best outcome is that no one notices the technology at all because it simply works.
These days, I spend a lot of time thinking about systems: how they fail, how they can be monitored, how operators interact with them, and how better tools can make complex environments easier to understand.
stevencarl.com/ is not intended to be a résumé site. It is a place to document the workbench: projects, experiments, observations, lessons learned, and the strange path that led me from entertainment technology into AI-assisted software development.
What this site is about
- Building useful tools from real operational problems.
- Exploring AI-assisted development without pretending it is magic.
- Capturing lessons from live entertainment and technical operations.
- Documenting the evolution of Scarlco Labs.
- Writing honestly about learning, building, breaking, fixing, and trying again.
What this site is not
This is not an official voice for any employer, venue, client, or production. Project notes are intentionally generalized when needed to respect confidentiality, privacy, and professional boundaries.