Summary
Charles Benton is a Seattle-based Software Development Manager with two decades of experience marrying technical architecture, product strategy, and team leadership to deliver production-grade systems. With a CS degree and an MBA, he has led full lifecycle development at Amazon and Daikin, architecting cloud-hosted web platforms and a division-wide Manufacturing Execution System built with Python/Django and SQL that drove measurable operational gains. He excels at translating cross-functional business needs into elegant, minimal-code solutions while coaching engineers and improving communication between product, IT, and stakeholders. Known for pragmatic hands-on management, Charles has implemented CI practices, version control, and Agile tooling to accelerate delivery and reduce defects. Outside of work he channels his systems design instincts into a hobby project—Overworld 3JS—a procedurally generated roguelite JRPG, reflecting a long-standing curiosity about simulation and interactive systems.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, 3.62, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, 3.62 at The University of Texas at Austin
MBA, Business, 4.0, MBA, Business, 4.0 at University of Houston, C.T. Bauer College of Business