Charles Forman
10x Janitor at tbd
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolCharles Forman is a veteran founder and product-driven technologist with over a decade of startup experience building viral social games and consumer services, including OMGPOP’s Draw Something and photo service Picturelife. As CEO and co-founder of Storyboarder and co-founder of Wonderunit, he blends UX/UI design, game design sensibilities, and hands-on front-end development—contributing directly to open-source Storyboarder’s Electron/JS UI and canvas rendering. He has a track record of creating products that scale to millions of users and attract strategic exits, and he now focuses on tools that make storytelling more immersive and accessible. Based in New York, Charles pairs entrepreneurial intuition with a rare mix of design-first engineering and product leadership, often rolling up his sleeves to ship UI polish that drives user delight.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
First YC Summer Batch, First YC Summer Batch at Y CombinatorDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Criminal Justice and Corrections, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Criminal Justice and Corrections at Harvard UniversityPHD, Life, PHD, Life at Street and Sidewalks University
Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian
Github Skills (6)
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
electron10
css9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
wonderunit/storyboarder
Dec 2016 - Feb 2021
✏️ Storyboarder makes it easy to visualize a story as fast you can draw stick figures.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:45 releases, 585 commits, 127 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Charles's contributions primarily focused on the development and improvement of the user interface. They worked on implementing UI components using JavaScript and Electron, including adding tooltips, incorporating button actions, and adjusting the styling of various elements. The user also focused on improving the rendering by modifying aspects of the draw canvas and the main camera functionality.
filmmakingstoryboardingmoviesreactfountain
setpixel/platformer-game
Dec 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:19 commits, 17 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
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