Charles Gantt
Owner at TheMakersWorkbench.com
Aiken County, South Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolCharles Gantt is a multidisciplinary technologist and founder with nearly a decade of hands-on software experience and over 15 years working with text editor development, integration, and technical content. As owner of multiple brands and media channels, he fuses software engineering, electrical hardware design, and entrepreneurial product development to make complex topics accessible through writing, video, and open-source contributions. At CKEditor he translated deep editor internals into clear, practical guidance and contributed code enhancements to CKEditor 5 around tables and media embedding, reflecting both front-end and back-end chops. His background spans Drupal site builds, ASIC and consumer-electronics projects, and two startups that commercialized automation for haunted attractions and horticulture—showing an unusual blend of creative prototyping and production engineering. Based in Aiken County, SC, he also runs popular maker-focused websites and YouTube channels with over a million combined views, demonstrating an ability to grow technical communities as well as products.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
General Studies, General Studies at Aiken Technical CollegeUniversity of Georgia
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (7)
html10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
testing9
web-development9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ckeditor/ckeditor5
May 2020 - Mar 2021
Powerful rich text editor framework with a modular architecture, modern integrations, and features like collaborative editing.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Front-end Developer
Back-end & Front-end DeveloperContributions:21 releases, 122 commits, 58 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Charles's commits reveal a focus on updating and integrating components within the CKEditor 5 framework, particularly in the areas of table and media embedding functionality. They implemented, tested and maintained the code, and ensured that the code was compatible with different environments. They were involved in refactoring existing components to enhance usability and address browser-compatibility issues, and they worked on improving the features like support for custom elements like template, adding new features.
rich-textwysiwyg-editorlexicalrichtexttinymce
ckeditor/ckeditor4-presets
May 2020 - Jan 2023
CKEditor 4 presets builder.
Contributions:287 commits, 8 pushes, 4 comments in 2 years 8 months
presetsckeditorbuilder
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