Charles Burgess
Engineering Manager at Ediphi
Tampa, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Burgess is an engineering manager with 12 years of experience building and scaling web platforms, mobile apps, and the APIs that power them, now leading engineering at Ediphi. He has progressed from hands-on engineering and co-founding a nonprofit-oriented startup to senior leadership roles—VP, Director, and multiple engineering manager positions—across companies serving enterprise partners and consumer-scale products. Charles combines pragmatic architecture skills (AWS, Python, Node, React, GraphQL, Kubernetes) with strong people leadership, coaching engineers through one-on-ones, career growth, and cross-functional collaboration. He has repeatedly taken teams from idea to delivery quickly, including shipping a first mobile app in under four months and scaling platforms to billions of daily API requests. Known for creating psychologically safe, high-performing teams, he also engages externally through webinars, podcasts, and community outreach to amplify product and user impact. Based in Tampa, he blends entrepreneurial curiosity with operational rigor to turn complex problems into reliable, production-grade systems.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of South Florida
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
168reputation
16kreached
1answer
2questions
Github Skills (200)
javascript-client10
material-ui10
snake-case10
express-graphql10
waffle10
nodejs10
react-apollo10
material-design10
higher-order-component10
frontend10
datasource10
datasources10
resolvers10
graphql-schema10
forms10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
cvburgess/cvburgess.com
Aug 2017 - Mar 2025
Simple landing page for cvburgess.com
Contributions:23 PRs, 256 pushes, 21 branches in 7 years 9 months
simple-landing-page
usePF/perch-components
Feb 2018 - Sep 2019
React components for cross-application use at Perch Security
Contributions:25 releases, 52 commits, 33 PRs in 1 year 7 months
securityreactreact-components
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