Charles Hayden
Retired at Ai2
Rancho Santa Margarita, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Hayden is a retired software engineering leader with 17+ years of hands-on experience guiding architecture, language design, and distributed systems across research-driven and philanthropic organizations. He has led teams from design through delivery on high-impact projects—most recently building space-based monitoring software to combat illegal fishing at the Allen Institute for AI and previously developing analytics and big-data platforms and core telecom switching systems. Known for finding the right language to solve problems, he balances creative simplification with rigorous architecture, and originated xFrames for Spark while at Atigeo. His background spans Bell Labs and Lucent-era telephony to cloud-scale analytics at Microsoft and The New York Times, giving him deep expertise in scalable backends and ML-integration. Based in Rancho Santa Margarita, he looks for opportunities that are both fun and meaningful, applying academic depth (PhD in Computer Science) to pragmatic product delivery. An uncommon through-line in his career is a persistent focus on language and framework choices as levers for long-term system simplicity and maintainability.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBA Physics, BA Physics at Reed College
Github Skills (26)
mongodb7
flask7
api-framework6
pymongo6
decoder6
api6
rest6
tabular6
mocking6
python6
decoding6
testing6
system-identification5
rest-api5
data-processing4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
VeritoneAlpha/xpatterns-xframe
Jul 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:97 commits, 1 PR, 191 pushes in 8 months
data-processingtabular-datasimplifiedsparkprocessing-library
cchayden/xframes
Dec 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:70 pushes, 5 branches, 3 tags in 2 years
data-processingtabular-datasimplifiedsparkprocessing-library
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