Charles Battle
Chief Product And Technology Officer at Koalafi
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Battle is a product and technology executive with over a decade of experience building consumer and enterprise platforms across startups and Fortune 100 companies, currently serving as Chief Product and Technology Officer at Koalafi. He has led large multidisciplinary teams and owned product strategy for transformative initiatives—most recently architecting Ibotta’s Rewards-as-a-Service that powers item-level cash back at major retailers and helping prepare the company for a successful IPO. Prior roles include leading consumer digital mortgage and lead-management products at Guaranteed Rate and driving major conversion and NPS gains across LendingTree’s consumer portfolio. Charles pairs strategic leadership with hands-on engineering chops, contributing backend code to open-source tooling like a Golang-based Douyin crawler that reflects his practical expertise in data, proxies, and service integrations. A Columbia MBA and former editor with an MA in creative writing, he blends narrative-driven product vision with rigorous analytics and delivery discipline. Based in Charlotte, he’s known for scaling product organizations quickly while keeping a builder’s mindset.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BA English Creative Writing, BA English Creative Writing at University of North Carolina at Chapel HillMBA Media Management Finance Strategy, MBA Media Management Finance Strategy at Columbia Business SchoolMcCallieMA Creative Writing, MA Creative Writing at Boston University
Github Skills (10)
golang10
http10
go10
webscraping10
reverse-engineering9
android-adb8
adbd8
adb8
apidoc7
api7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
cnbattle/douyin
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
抖音推荐/搜索页视频列表视频爬虫方案,基于app(虚拟机或真机) 相关技术 golang adb
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 111 commits, 73 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Charles primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Douyin (TikTok) crawler project. Their work included implementing logic for downloading video content, modifying the proxy setup using goproxy, and integrating database interactions. Significant changes were made to the application's web service, including restructuring the config files and adapting the service for the new goproxy. Moreover, they are responsible for modifying the adb application.
adbgolanggodouyin
cnbattle/docker-go
Dec 2020 - Aug 2022
Contributions:3 releases, 39 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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