Charles Abbott
Senior Director Of Engineering at Workiva
Greater Tokyo Area Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Abbott is a senior engineering leader and entrepreneur with 14+ years building and scaling high-performing, distributed teams across startups and large-cap companies, now leading engineering at Workiva. He combines hands-on full‑stack experience (Ruby, Rails, JS/CSS) with executive-level delivery—doubling deployment frequency and driving DevOps/SRE transformations at Medidata while managing global teams. A pragmatic, people-first builder, he repeatedly creates enablement systems that accelerate cross-team architecture and reliability work under uncertainty. Outside core engineering he’s an MBA-trained lifelong learner who speaks at conferences, contributes to open source, organizes developer communities in Tokyo, and even self-published books—signals of his maker-and-connector mindset. Notably, he blends competitive team sports and tabletop roleplaying leadership into his management style, favoring genuine, sincere collaboration to scale organizations.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, International Business, MBA, International Business at University of North Alabama
English, Japanese
Github Skills (6)
csharp2
rails1
mono1
crowd1
dotnet1
ruby1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
tokyorails/rrroomba
Apr 2012 - Feb 2013
Contributions:5 commits in 10 months
cwabbott/etherpad-lite
Sep 2021 - Sep 2021
Etherpad: A modern really-real-time collaborative document editor.
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
pdfdocxcollaborationcollaborativeeditor
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