Charles Giardina
Vice President Of Engineering at Levelpath
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Giardina is a results-driven engineering leader with 11 years of experience building AI-native, high-leverage teams and scaling data platforms from 0 to enterprise-grade. As VP of Engineering at Airbyte he helped grow revenue 10× to eight-figure ARR, launched self-hosted and cloud products serving five-figure DAUs and 100K+ daily replication jobs, and introduced AI agents to accelerate integration development. He combines hands-on backend and data-engineering chops—contributing to core Airbyte repositories on retry logic, persistence, and server-side improvements—with strategic product and go-to-market execution. Now leading engineering at Levelpath from the Bay Area, he prioritizes momentum, compounding growth, and team joy as operational levers. A former theater director turned engineer, he brings uncommon storytelling and people-leadership skills to complex technical programs.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bradfield School of Computer ScienceBA Theatre (Directing) Economics (minor), BA Theatre (Directing) Economics (minor) at Middlebury CollegeSoftware Development, Software Development at Dev BootcampHigh School, High School at Collegiate School
Italian, Spanish
Github Skills (11)
javas10
error-handling10
back-end-development10
java10
persistence9
configuration-management9
api8
apache-kafka8
database-management8
apidoc8
postgresql7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
airbytehq/airbyte
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
The leading data integration platform for ETL / ELT data pipelines from APIs, databases & files to data warehouses, data lakes & data lakehouses. Both self-hosted and Cloud-hosted.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Data Engineer
Back-end Developer & Data EngineerContributions:31 releases, 2485 reviews, 728 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Charles primarily worked on enhancing the retry logic for job processing within the Airbyte data integration platform, focusing on improving the reliability of data pipelines. The user's commits centered around implementing retry mechanisms in Java, as evidenced by the changes to `JobRetrier.java` and associated testing, demonstrating a focus on backend development and error handling. In addition to these efforts, the user contributed to the persistence layer by modifying file operations that were related to the state management of the data pipeline. This indicates proficiency in database management to help ensure data consistency and the proper handling of data throughout the system, which helps to qualify their work as data engineering.
operationpythondataintegration-platformdata-warehouse
airbytehq/airbyte-platform
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
The platform that powers Airbyte. Please file issues in https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 50 commits, 34 PRs in 28 days
Contributions summary:Charles primarily focused on back-end improvements, addressing database access restrictions for web backends and removing deprecated code. They also reverted changes related to the Harvest source, and Zendesk support tests, and formatted code. Their work included modifications across server-side handlers and configuration repositories.
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