Charles Himmer
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Applied Systems
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolCharles Himmer is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in the Austin area with 13+ years of hands-on experience building full-stack web platforms, design systems, and migration tooling. He combines deep front-end expertise (TypeScript, React, Storybook, CSS) with backend and infrastructure skills (Go, Docker, AWS) and has driven architecture and delivery as a lead on cross-functional teams. At Applied Systems he helped create a private React component design system to accelerate product teams and led a multi-phased breakup of a revenue-critical monolith into microservices with zero client downtime. He’s an advocate for developer productivity and automation, evidenced by past work reducing build times at Bazaarvoice and contributing modal enhancements to a popular Angular-Materialize repo. Comfortable mentoring and setting technical direction, he balances pragmatic execution with long-term platform thinking.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Entrepreneurship, Business, B.S., Entrepreneurship, Business at Brigham Young University
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (10)
html10
javascript10
material-ui10
front-end-development10
materialize10
angularjs10
css9
timezone6
offset6
mysql6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
krescruz/angular-materialize
Feb 2016 - Jul 2016
Angularjs directives for Materialize CSS Framework https://github.com/Dogfalo/materialize
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 7 PRs, 13 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Charles primarily focused on enhancing the modal functionality within the Angular Materialize framework. Their contributions involved adding features to control modals from controllers, incorporating ready and complete callbacks, and supporting the use of `href` attributes for modal triggers. Additionally, the user refactored modal tab support, adding an optional `enable-tabs` attribute and fixed issues around syncing the 'open' boolean. These changes improved the framework's usability and expanded its capabilities.
materialcssangularjs-directivesdirectivesmaterialize-css
charleshimmer/angular-materialize
Feb 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:12 pushes in 4 months
materialcssangularjs-directivesdirectivesmaterialize-css
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