Summary
Charles Villard is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in front-end development, accessible design systems, and developer experience tooling. Since transitioning from journalism in 2016 he has built customer-facing JAMstack sites and component-driven systems using Astro, React, Vue, Next/Nuxt, Storybook and Web Components while also contributing to backend platforms in PHP, Ruby and .NET. He's passionate about making the web accessible and reliable, and routinely improves team productivity through internal libraries, tooling and CI/CD practices. His career spans consulting and in-house roles at Perficient, Tenet Partners, Letterhead and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and he currently builds digital experiences for Miami Marlins and loanDepot park. Based in Florida, Charles blends product-minded front-end craft with full-stack pragmatism and a communicator’s eye for clarity—an asset rooted in his journalism and communications background.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Communication and Media Studies, Communication and Media Studies at Florida International University
Associate of Art Mass Communications/Journalism, Associate of Art Mass Communications/Journalism at Miami Dade College