Beau Charman
Front-End Engineer at Amazon
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolBeau Charman is a senior front-end engineer based in Melbourne with 13 years of professional experience and over 15 years of hands-on web work, currently building front-end systems at Amazon. He has led and shipped large React/GraphQL projects for global brands like Aēsop and contributed to mental-health platform development at InnoWell, demonstrating a mix of product focus and accessibility-minded engineering. Skilled in modern front-end tooling—webpack, Apollo, React Testing Library, Redux and CSS Modules—Beau bridges design and engineering to deliver polished, localised, performant experiences. He’s held technical lead responsibilities, mentoring teams and shaping development workflows across agencies and enterprise engagements. An active JavaScript hacker and open-source contributor, he’s improved MERN starter tooling and has a background in music and education that informs a collaborative, human-centered approach. Outside of work Beau’s eclectic interests—from minimalist living to studying Japanese—feed a creative, values-driven perspective on technology.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Higher School Certificate, Music, Higher School Certificate, Music at St Joseph's High SchoolBachelor of Contemporary Music, Performance, Music Industries, Production, Composition, Bachelor of Contemporary Music, Performance, Music Industries, Production, Composition at Southern Cross University
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
41reputation
7kreached
1answer
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Github Skills (15)
javascript10
mern10
react10
webpacker9
jsx9
webpack9
css8
deprecated7
polymer6
accessibility6
shadow-dom6
twitter-bootstrap6
web-components6
screen-reader6
font-awesome6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Hashnode/mern-starter
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
⛔️ DEPRECATED - Boilerplate for getting started with MERN stack
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 4 PRs, 10 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Beau primarily focused on improving the MERN stack starter project. Their contributions included addressing code formatting issues, such as mixed spaces and tabs, extra lines, and trailing spaces. They also enhanced the project by adding JSX formatting, updating React file extensions, and introducing consts and arrow functions. Further, they made changes to the webpack configuration, suggesting involvement in build process.
mernarchived
beaucharman/wordpress-custom-taxonomies
Mar 2013 - Mar 2014
Contributions:41 commits in 1 year
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