Charles Arciniega
CTO & Co-Founder at Gravity Current
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolCharles Arciniega is a seasoned CTO and co-founder with over a decade of professional software experience and 16+ years coding across Web, macOS, and Windows platforms. He leads engineering for Synesthesia, a live-performance tool used by thousands of professionals at festivals like Coachella and Burning Man, and has hands-on expertise in C/C++, Rust, and TypeScript with Kubernetes-based deployments. Charles blends product-minded design and brand thinking with low-latency audio-engine and marketplace engineering, having designed Synesthesia’s UX, cross-platform ports, and fair-licensing marketplace. He scales teams and processes across time zones, mentors engineers from junior to senior levels, and favors pragmatic cost/benefit trade-offs when adopting new technology. Known for treating software as a craft that creates delightful experiences (and occasionally spaghetti), he pairs entrepreneurial grit with deep full-stack execution.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Pasadena City CollegeCalifornia State University, NorthridgeWeb Design, Web Design at California State University-Dominguez Hills
Spanish, Italian, English, German
Github Skills (38)
javascript10
testing10
facebook10
spotify8
browser8
linux8
spotify-api8
daemon8
query-language7
windows7
lua7
neovim6
macos6
nvim6
obsidian6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ashnkumar/Polar_Bear
May 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:78 commits in 7 days
arcin/miso
Jul 2014 - Oct 2015
Contributions:100 commits, 4 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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