Charles Hussong
Senior Runtime Framework Engineer at Woven by Toyota
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Hussong is a Senior Runtime Framework Engineer with nine years of experience building foundational C++ libraries for safety-critical automotive software at Woven by Toyota, where he represents the company on the ISO C++ Standardization Committee. He holds a Ph.D. in theoretical and mathematical physics and translates abstract mathematical problems into highly optimized, production-grade C++ and Python implementations across automotive, NLP, and ML domains. Previously he engineered end-to-end speech and pronunciation systems for TerraTalk, shipping C/C++/Java/Python APIs deployed to servers and tens of thousands of devices, and contributed memory-leak fixes to the pocketsphinx speech recognizer. Known for meticulous correctness and speed, he combines academic rigor with practical system design to meet safety certification and performance constraints. He also conducts internal C++ training, blending standards-level insight with hands-on code and tooling improvements.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA, Majors: Physics, Mathematics; Minor: Asian Studies, 3.5/4.0, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Majors: Physics, Mathematics; Minor: Asian Studies, 3.5/4.0 at Cornell University
Japanese, English, Chinese, German, French, Latin
Github Skills (8)
c1710
memory-management10
speech-recognition10
c1110
architecture8
architectures8
c-language6
cprogramming-language6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cmusphinx/pocketsphinx
Aug 2018 - May 2019
A small speech recognizer
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 5 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Charles primarily contributed to fixing memory leaks and improving code structure within the `pocketsphinx` library. Their work involved modifying C code, specifically in `allphone_search.c`, to address memory management issues. Additionally, they focused on enhancing code readability and maintainability by adding names to struct typedefs and incorporating extern "C" declarations in header files.
kaldipythonrecognizerspeech-to-textspeech-recognition
chussong/virasoro
Oct 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 100 commits, 98 pushes in 1 year
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