Charles Maresh
Principal Software Engineer II at Stitch Fix
Richardson, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolCharles Maresh is a Principal Software Engineer II with 17 years of experience building web-based applications and leading engineering teams, currently shaping platform and product architecture at Stitch Fix. An honors graduate in Computer Science and Software Engineering from UT Dallas, he combines deep backend expertise—particularly in Ruby/Rails—with a strong eye for visual design that elevates user-facing admin tooling. He previously served as CTO at ORM Technologies and progressed through senior engineering and leadership roles, demonstrating a consistent track record of delivery and team mentorship. An active open-source contributor, Charles has made meaningful backend improvements to the widely used ActiveAdmin project, addressing Rails compatibility and multi-record features. Based in Richardson, Texas, he balances a production-focused engineering mindset with pragmatic tool-building—when not coding, he’s likely refining his vim setup or writing Ruby apps.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science and Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science and Software Engineering at The University of Texas at Dallas
English
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Github Skills (16)
rspec10
ruby-rails10
rails10
activeadmin10
resource-management10
ruby10
ruby-on-rails9
datetime9
html8
arbre7
guard6
associations6
has-many-through6
rbenv6
formtastic6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
activeadmin/activeadmin
Aug 2013 - Jul 2018
The administration framework for Ruby on Rails applications.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:47 commits, 28 PRs, 24 pushes in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Charles primarily focused on improving the Active Admin framework's backend functionality. Their contributions include fixing a bug related to HTML-safe titles in panels, enhancing the ResourceCollection class for managing resources, and adding support for multi-record attributes tables. They also addressed Rails 4 compatibility issues and added missing features to page resources.
ruby-on-railsrails-applicationsrailsadministrationarbre
zorab47/active_admin
Mar 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:14 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 1 month
ruby-on-railsrails-applicationsrailsadministrationruby
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