Charles Smith
Principal Engineer at Beachy
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Smith is a Principal Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building web applications, primarily in Ruby on Rails, and a track record of scaling teams and products through multiple leadership roles at Beachy. A two-time founder who transitioned from PHP and Drupal-era work to loving the productivity of Ruby, he pairs pragmatic engineering with strong client-facing skills and a knack for expectation management. He’s led backend development for marketplace platforms and has moved between individual contributor and executive tech roles (including interim CTO and VP of Engineering), so he thrives both shipping code and setting technical direction. Based in Nashville, he balances engineering with an unexpected second life as a knowledgeable wine-focused bartender, which underscores his social ease and ability to communicate technical ideas to non-technical audiences.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology
English, ruby
Github Skills (51)
mvc10
rails10
ruby10
html10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
browser-testing8
credit7
credit-card7
geckodriver6
chrome6
npm-package6
device-manager6
jquery6
circleci6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
beachyapp/jira-transition-issue-action
May 2023 - Feb 2024
This action will transition an issue in JIRA based on issue key and transition-to values
Contributions:4 releases, 1 review, 1 PR in 9 months
beachyapp/jira-update-custom-field-action
May 2023 - Feb 2024
This action will update a custom field on a JIRA issue to whatever value you specify
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 1 PR in 9 months
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