Charles Packer
Co-founder & CEO at Letta
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Packer is a founder and CEO with 12 years of experience turning AI research into product-grade systems, currently building Letta, an open AI startup in San Francisco focused on stateful agent frameworks with memory and reasoning. He brings deep research credentials from a PhD track and five years as a Berkeley AI researcher, plus earlier systems and devops experience from UCSD and industry internships at Microsoft and Qualcomm. Comfortable across front-end interfaces and large-scale systems, he contributes directly to Letta’s open-source repo, improving its website and community access while shaping the framework itself. He blends academic rigor with product instincts, and quietly emphasizes developer experience and community building—adding paper and Discord links to make research more accessible to users and contributors.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California, San Diego
Github Skills (2)
html10
website-development10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
letta-ai/letta
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
Letta (formerly MemGPT) is the stateful agents framework with memory, reasoning, and context management.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 880 reviews, 1198 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Charles's contributions center on updating the `index.html` file, indicating involvement in the project's front-end development. The changes involve modifications to the website's layout and content, including the addition of new links. They also added paper and discord links, as well as updated the links to match the newer github repo. These updates suggest the user is working to improve the website interface and content presentation.
aiai-agentsllmllm-agent
cpacker/finger-putty
Oct 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:27 commits in 1 month
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