I’m an engineer at Anthropic. I live in Palo Alto. Previously I worked at xAI and Vannevar Labs. Before becoming a programmer, I was a Submarine Officer in the US Navy. Before that, I was a Trident Scholar in Mathematics at the US Naval Academy. This is my personal website.
When I was in the Navy, I wished for these applications, so after I left I built them.
- ewatchbill.com: a fair in-port schedule generator.
- jfmm.net: semantic search for the Navy’s biggest, nastiest manual.
- bearingsonly.net: a realistic submarine combat game.
I like to write, especially about math, coding, and the outdoors. Take a look at some of my articles here.
I did a lot of math work at the Naval Academy. You can read about it here. The main topic of my research is the stability of mathematical swarm models.
I use X (Twitter) as my main social media. My handle is @carlkolon.
I’m on LinkedIn as Carl Kolon
I’m on Github as cckolon.
My cat is on Instagram as @rockminsterfullerene.
My wife, Jackie, is a pulmonology & critical care fellow at Stanford. We welcomed our first daughter Florence in summer, 2025.
My little sister, Nellie, is a Master’s student at Georgia Tech studying Biomedical Engineering.