Charles Costa
Staff Software Engineer at SimpliSafe
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Costa is a Staff Software Engineer in Boston with ~17 years building enterprise software and a current focus on large-scale microservice architectures. He has progressed from hands-on .NET development and SQL performance tuning at Phase Forward/Oracle and Symbotic to architectural leadership and domain design at Vista, and now drives platform initiatives at SimpliSafe. Known for translating complex requirements into clear, maintainable architectures, he combines strong backend engineering (C#, distributed systems, multithreading) with a knack for precise, communicative diagrams and code. A pragmatic problem-solver, he has repeatedly delivered throughput and reliability improvements—once identifying a query change that boosted an internal tool by orders of magnitude.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Northeastern University
Github Skills (7)
controlled6
servo5
pi5
octoprint4
raspberry4
sd-card4
raspberry-pi2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
reghartner/pi-pet-suite
Nov 2019 - Jan 2020
Raspberry Pi controlled pet treat dispenser
Contributions:20 commits, 6 PRs, 143 pushes in 1 month
raspberry-pioctoprintcontrolledrtlsdrdispenser
jordanmeyer/nyt-bar-optimizer
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:1 issue in 1 day
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