Andrew Charlton
Staff Software Engineer at Timescale
Seaham, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Charlton is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of professional engineering experience, currently building scalable data-driven systems at Timescale after earlier senior roles at InfluxData and Numbrs. He brings deep backend expertise—particularly in time-series and observability domains—paired with hands-on leadership from prior team lead roles. Before software, Andrew spent nearly a decade in education as a teacher and senior school leader, a background that informs his strengths in mentoring, curriculum-style documentation, and structured problem-solving. A Cambridge-trained engineer, he combines academic rigor with pragmatic delivery in production environments. Based in Seaham, UK, he is notable for transitioning successfully from educational leadership into high-impact engineering roles in data infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA MA Engineering (Electrical and Information Sciences), BA MA Engineering (Electrical and Information Sciences) at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (75)
timeseries-database10
influxdb10
monitoring10
rust10
scalable10
database10
go10
time-series10
datastore10
react10
javascript9
csi9
failover9
aws9
analytics9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
venerablebede/p02.1
Sep 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:44 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
conditionalselse
influxdata/influxdb-stack-manager
Apr 2021 - Nov 2021
CLI tool to make managing stacks easier
Contributions:1 review, 13 commits, 5 PRs in 7 months
cli-toolstackscli
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