Chach Sikes
Senior Engineer At Office Of Data And Innovation, State Of California
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolChach Sikes is a Senior Engineer at the California Office of Data & Innovation with 16 years of experience building public-facing web applications and civic technology. He blends front-end craftsmanship with systems thinking from roles at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, MapLight, and Code for America, delivering accessible, data-driven experiences for government and cultural institutions. Comfortable leading teams and projects, he has held architect and lead engineer titles across startups and nonprofits, guiding work from prototype to production. His background in bioinformatics and botanical illustration reflects a rare mix of technical rigor and design sensibility that informs how he organizes complex data for human use. Based in Los Angeles, he pairs public service instincts with an experimental mindset—evidenced by side certifications in scent design and comedy—that helps him communicate technical ideas to diverse audiences.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics at University of California, BerkeleyComedy, Comedy at The Second CityB.A, Social Sciences, B.A, Social Sciences at Bard CollegeOpen Government, Open Government at Code for America FellowshipComputer Arts, n/a, Computer Arts, n/a at Center for Electronic ArtsScientific Botanical Illustration, Scientific Botanical Illustration at Minnesota School of Botanical ArtCertificate, Scent design, Certificate, Scent design at Institute for Art and Olfaction
English, Spanish
Github Skills (109)
markdown10
wordpress10
site-generator10
static-site-generator10
jamstack10
static-site10
jekyll10
javascript9
styled-components9
react-native9
ios9
react9
frontend9
gutenberg-blocks9
typescript9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
chachasikes/Oakland-Trees
Jul 2012 - Sep 2012
Contributions:29 commits in 2 months
chachasikes/Drupal-7-Demo
Jan 2011 - Jan 2011
Contributions:7 commits in 1 day
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