Charles Hicks
Creative Technologist
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Summary
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RockstarCharles Hicks is a creative technologist with 14 years of hands-on experience building front-end systems, voice-first applications, and multimedia solutions from Kansas City. He blends software development, video production, and UX sensibility to craft intentional, sustainable experiences—recently architecting patented tools to deliver content at scale for millions of users. A longtime maker, Charles maintains open-source contributions like front-end improvements to an HTML5 WordPress starter theme while running his own studio work in creative writing, podcasting, and VFX. Curious and collaborative, he thrives at the intersection of digital and physical media, often found with a camera in one hand and code in the other, turning human-centered ideas into practical products.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (4)
html10
wordpress10
css10
front-end-development10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
murtaugh/HTML5-Reset-WordPress-Theme
Mar 2013 - Sep 2015
A style-free WordPress theme to get you started with proper HTML5 semantics and structures.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:35 commits, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Charles primarily focused on updating and maintaining the theme's front-end components. Their contributions included updating the reset.css file, adding localization for the theme, and fixing list item wrappers. They also worked on minor code cleanup tasks, including capitalizing "WordPress" in the style.css and footer.php files, and updating the Google Analytics code.
wordpresscsswordpress-themesemanticshtml5
40Digits/code-standards
Jun 2014 - Jun 2014
Contributions:13 commits, 1 push, 5 comments in 3 days
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