Charles Merriam
Founder at Evo Reach
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolCharles Merriam is a founder, inventor, and seasoned engineering leader with 16+ years building mobile and web products from prototype to production. He won Best Application Design at the 2011 Android DevCamp for GoodAccess, holds seven issued US patents in communications and mobile devices, and has hands-on experience across Python, Java, C/C++, JavaScript and modern LLM tooling. Charles has bridged technical and commercial worlds as a strategic sales engineer for JavaSoft/Sun and as an engineering manager who shipped cross-platform SPAs and led distributed teams. He contributes to notable open-source projects like Kivy and has improved developer experience through clear documentation for widely used Python tooling such as colorama. Based in San Jose, he combines deep expertise in small devices, image analysis, robotics and AI with a knack for storytelling and product invention that helps startups scale. Quietly selective about outreach, he now advises and funds early-stage companies while actively experimenting with LLMs, Godot, and Z3.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science and Business, B.S., Computer Science and Business at California State University, Chico
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Github Skills (30)
mobile-development10
python10
ui-design10
app-dev10
kivy10
uid10
front-end-development10
documentation10
javascript9
oop9
git9
xamarin-ios9
makefile9
chai9
nodejs9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
kivy/kivy
Dec 2014 - Mar 2015
Open source UI framework written in Python, running on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iOS
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:84 commits, 59 PRs, 66 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Charles contributed primarily to the Kivy UI framework by adding example applications and making improvements to existing ones. These contributions involved creating new demos that showcase different ways to start and build applications, as well as demonstrating the use of prebuilt widgets. The user also refactored the code, converting print statements to function calls for compatibility with Python 3 and improving documentation. The focus was on expanding the framework's examples and improving code quality.
pythonlinux-windowswindowsui-frameworklinux
tartley/colorama
Dec 2014 - Dec 2014
Simple cross-platform colored terminal text in Python
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:8 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Charles primarily focused on improving the documentation within the `colorama` repository. Their contributions included adding and updating documentation for the demo scripts in both `.sh` and `.bat` formats. This involved writing descriptive comments to explain each line of code within the demo files, clarifying their functionality. Furthermore, the user made minor corrections to improve the clarity and accuracy of the documentation.
pythonconsolecolored-terminallinuxcolored
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