Charles Frankston
Frankston at Frankston Innovating
Newton, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolCharles Frankston is a veteran software architect and founder with decades of experience building resilient, large-scale systems and pioneering technologies from XML to Emacs. He founded and sold a software contracting company to Microsoft, helped define XML standards at W3C, and later served as CTO and Chief Privacy Officer at startups focused on wireless and healthcare compliance. He architected a continuously operating SaaS analytics platform that ingests over 20 million HVAC data points per day and led hands-on deployments, incident response, and HIPAA/HITRUST certification efforts. Comfortable across Microsoft and Java ecosystems, Rust, cloud-native Kubernetes deployments, and system-level engineering, he blends deep academic grounding in operating systems and security with practical product delivery. Colleagues rely on him for CTO-level strategy, rapid hands-on problem solving, and spotting architectural issues before they become outages. Based in Newton, MA, he pairs historical perspective from early internet and editor work with modern cloud and privacy-first practice.
11 years of coding experience
44 years of employment as a software developer
BS EECS, CS, BS EECS, CS at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyStuyvesant High School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (38)
mkdocs10
arxiv10
flask10
python9
virtual-memory9
utterances9
documentation9
midas8
ddt8
retrocomputing8
line-app7
teco7
incompatible-timesharing-system7
rapidapi7
operating-system7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ligerbots/RecycleRush2015Robot
Feb 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:113 pushes, 5 branches, 3 comments in 2 months
arXiv/discussion
Aug 2022 - Apr 2023
Discussion and planning for arXiv
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 PR, 58 pushes in 8 months
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