Charles Salmon
Chief Technology Officer at Origami
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
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Top SchoolCharles Salmon is a pragmatic technology leader and Chief Technology Officer with nine years of hands-on experience building cloud-native, distributed systems and leading engineering teams from New Zealand. He combines a strong academic foundation in mathematics and computer science with practical expertise across C#, Go, Rust, Python, Kubernetes, and multi-cloud platforms, having driven architecture and delivery at companies including Verizon Connect, Intranel, XE.com, and Simple Machines. Known for mentoring engineers, introducing modern practices, and winning multiple internal awards, he has a track record of improving product delivery, aligning cross-office processes, and rescuing high-stakes production incidents. He started experimenting with web development and SEO at age 11 and was Dux of Kapiti College, a background that reflects both early entrepreneurial curiosity and continued technical rigor. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architectural decisions that balance long-term scalability with immediate business needs.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Kapiti CollegeBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Canterbury
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Github Skills (168)
testing10
nunit10
nsubstitute10
vuejs210
tabs-management10
fscheck10
wizard10
dotnet10
lambda10
fakeiteasy10
auto-mocking10
aws-lambda10
typescript10
autofixture10
maintainability10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
charlesdotfish/smtp-credentials-cdk-construct
Mar 2021 - May 2022
A CDK construct that creates SMTP credentials permitting emails to be sent via SES.
Contributions:52 commits, 48 PRs, 51 pushes in 1 year 2 months
cdk-constructsmtpemailspermittingcredentials
overengineeredcalculator/overengineered-calculator
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
A cloud function which responds to Slack slash commands to perform basic numeric calculations.
Contributions:3 releases, 6 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 month
calculationscloud-functionslackslash-commandsslack-slash
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