Char Mays
Director Of Technical Curriculum & Innovation
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolChar Mays is a director-level curriculum architect and former software engineer who blends technical depth from roles at Google, Buffer, and USAFacts with a liberation-focused approach to tech education. As Director of Technical Curriculum & Innovation at Ada Developers Academy, they lead the creation of an AI-enabled software engineering curriculum and manage instruction that prepares women and gender-expansive adults for industry careers. Char combines product-quality engineering experience—building microservices, data pipelines, and front-end performance tools—with cultural strategy, co-founding equity initiatives and challenging productivity-driven norms through projects like Tech Boi and Liberation Dispatch. They prioritize designing programs and frameworks that help Black, queer, and systemically excluded learners unlearn extractive systems and build sustainable, soul-enriching careers. Based in Seattle, Char brings a rare mix of hands-on engineering, instructional design, and community-centered leadership to workforce development.
3 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at The University of Texas at DallasComputer Science, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (21)
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create-project10
binary-search9
chat8
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lists7
nodejs7
javascript7
graph7
static-site7
ada7
react7
task-list6
flask6
livecode6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Ada-Developers-Academy/cs-fun-mock-interviews
Jan 2023 - Feb 2025
This repo contains mock interview submission assignments.
Contributions:10 reviews, 6 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Ada-Developers-Academy/core
Aug 2022 - Jan 2025
Contributions:5 reviews, 5 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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