Charles Ricchio
Senior Software Engineer at Arm
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolCharles Ricchio is a Senior Software Engineer based in Oslo with 11 years of experience building performance-focused C++ systems and real-time rendering interfaces. He has deep hands-on expertise integrating visualization (Ogre) and simulation (Chrono::Engine), adding cross-platform build support and GUI/callback features to enable interactive multiphysics workflows. At Arm he progressed from software engineer to senior engineer, applying his background in physics-driven simulation and tool development to production-grade projects. A UW–Madison double major in Computer Science and Scandinavian Studies, he brings both technical rigor and a global perspective to engineering problems. Notably, his open-source work on the widely used Chrono library highlights an ability to bridge core simulation code with practical visualization and developer tooling.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
English, Norwegian
Github Skills (10)
simulations10
simulation10
c-language10
cmake10
cprogramming-language10
ogre10
dynamics9
boost9
dynamic9
windows-gui7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
projectchrono/chrono
Jan 2015 - Jun 2017
High-performance C++ library for multiphysics and multibody dynamics simulations
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:67 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Charles's contributions focused on extending the functionality of the Chrono library by implementing Ogre-based visualization components. They added preprocessor definitions for DLL symbol importing and exporting, demonstrating a focus on cross-platform compatibility. The user added Boost to the CMake configuration and configured it, which suggests they are integrating external libraries into the project. Furthermore, they implemented and refactored the scene graph in order to support the new Ogre integration. They also began adding support for a GUI and callback functions to the input handler, indicating a step toward interactive simulations.
c-plus-plussimulationroboticssimulationsmultibody
uwsbel/vehicle_environment
Jul 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:82 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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