Hello! My name is Charlie. I like getting people excited and it comes very natural to me. I'm passionate about working with fun people and coming up with awesome solutions together. When I'm not coding, I'm probably either playing music, exercising, or learning German!
Berlin, Germany | March 2018 - Present | www.thoughtworks.com
Lead the development and maintenance of a ReactJS micro-frontend using Tailor as a page assembly service and the fragment pattern so that teams could independently manage their own frontend apps. Stack: React, Enzyme, Tailor
Lead countless presentation and showcases ranging from very technical to high-level board meetings.
Chicago, USA | February 2017 - March 2018 | www.thoughtworks.com
Was part of a distributed team that used the strangulation pattern to gradually replace a thirty-five year old legacy system built in Business Basic with a modern desktop application. Stack: Spring Boot, React/Redux, Electron, Enzyme, JUnit, Mockito
Worked on a Rails web app where I implemented roles with varying permissions using cancancan and implemented polymorphic associations to provide more flexible database modeling. Stack: Rails, RSpec, Capybara
Lisbon, Portugal | February 2016 - January 2017 | www.englishtutorslive.com
Developed easily extendable Ruby on Rails application with modular components and test drove development from the very beginning (seriously).
Gathered and prioritized business requirements, wrote stories, and managed development workflow.
Austin, USA - December 2013 - June 2014 | www.personandpartners.com
Analyzed the effect of altering elements on landing pages, made adjustments accordingly, and brought the bounce rate down from 48% to 27% over six months for Greenway Dodge.
Decreased average lead cost from $5.47 to $2.68 for Greenway Dodge by experimenting with A/B testing, and Google Analytics strategies.
Pune, India March 2017 - April 2017
A six week highly-intensive training program where I learned modern agile software delivery principles in a consulting context. Additionally, I got a once in a lifetime cultural experience that opened my eyes to the vast inequality in the world.
Austin, USA August 2016 - December 2016
Here, I learned how JavaScript works under the hood which continues to help me de-mystify much of the 'magic' provided by modern JS frameworks.
London, England October 2015 - March 2016
I learned the importance of test driving development. I was introduced to modern agile development and delivery fundamentals. The curriculum had a strong focus on Ruby on Rails, but also anything else we needed to achieve the task at hand.
Stockholm, Sweden August 2014 - June 2016
I learned how to work with people from all over the world to solve problems and deliver solutions within a time frame. We were drilled to focus on business value above all else. I got the privilege to present to companies like IKEA and Hugo Boss.
