Summary
Charles Grugan is a product-focused engineering leader who bridges design and development, with 11+ years of experience shaping customer experiences from high-fidelity prototypes to production components. As a founding member of Comcast’s Design Engineering team and later an Engineering Manager, he built shared languages—design systems, tokens, and automated pipelines—that reduced friction between designers and engineers and changed how products are delivered. His background in graphic design, web development, and UX teaching gives him a rare fluency in both visual craft and engineering pragmatics. He also serves as a board member for LibertyJS, helping bring world-class web and cloud expertise to Philadelphia. Charles holds an M.S. in User Experience and Interaction Design and often applies conversational/voice UI and prototype-driven research to inform product strategy. Colleagues describe him as a translator who converts creative intent into reliable, theme-able components that scale across large organizations.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), User Experience and Interaction Design, Master of Science (M.S.), User Experience and Interaction Design at Thomas Jefferson University
Bachelor of Arts, Graphics Design, Bachelor of Arts, Graphics Design at Cabrini University
International Marketing, International Marketing at University of Virginia
Spanish