Charles Gao
Climatebase Fellow
Pflugerville, Texas, United States
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolCharles Gao is a software engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building full-stack web applications, IoT firmware, and modernization tooling, now focused on climate tech through a selective Climatebase fellowship. He has practical experience supporting large engineering organizations—helping 1000+ engineers at Indeed with Kubernetes, Docker, CI, and platform onboarding—while also extracting and modernizing business logic from half‑million line legacy systems into Java/Spring/Angular solutions. Comfortable across the stack, Charles pairs embedded firmware work for wearables with web utilities and automated test environments, and he documents and mentors to scale team knowledge. His recent climate projects include urban heat mapping and tree health diagnosis, blending technical implementation with domain learning in energy, transportation, and agriculture. Based in Pflugerville/Austin, he’s seeking software engineering roles in Austin, Texas, and brings a rare combination of legacy-code migration, developer-ops support, and product-minded climate research experience.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
Chinese, French
Github Skills (48)
kubernetes-dashboard10
docker9
multi-cluster8
sublime8
dashboard8
kubernetes7
css7
dependency-tree7
backend7
scrapy6
spider6
escrow6
location6
luks6
javascript6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
chargao/personal-preferences
Jan 2020 - Dec 2024
Charlie Gao's coterie of bash aliases and sublime preferences
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
aliasesbashsublimebash-aliasescharlie
chargao/chinese-contest-pdf-certificates
Sep 2019 - Oct 2024
Automating the process of generating pdf certificates for Yellow River Cup Reading Contest
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 1 month
pythonpdfriveryellowreportlab
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