Charles Weld
Software Architect at Echoview Software
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Weld is a software architect based in Hobart, Tasmania with 15 years of experience delivering full lifecycle solutions across enterprise, government and research organisations. He blends hands-on engineering—spanning backend services, web and desktop UIs—with architecture and delivery leadership at Echoview Software. His background includes modernising legacy systems, building offline-capable incident management web apps, and leading OCR and document-management integrations (including a .NET Tesseract wrapper contribution). Comfortable working across stacks from Grails/AngularJS to ASP.NET and DirectX, he specialises in pragmatic solutions that balance performance and user experience. Known for shipping reliable, maintainable systems, he pairs technical depth with a track record of turning complex domain requirements into production software.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computing, Bachelor of Computing at University of Tasmania
Github Skills (8)
leptonica10
csharp10
image-processing10
tesseract10
dotnet-core10
netframework10
apidoc9
api9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
charlesw/tesseract
Dec 2012 - Nov 2022
A .Net wrapper for tesseract-ocr
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 278 commits, 40 PRs in 10 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Charles primarily updated the build configurations across multiple versions of the project to output x86 assemblies. They also added additional core API functions, specifically within the BaseApi.cs and Engine.cs files, which increased the functionality of the library. Further work included adding support for the conversion of bitmaps to pix structures, including support for 8-bit indexed images and color maps.
dotnetocrcsharptesseracttesseract-ocr
charlesw/tesseract-samples
Jan 2016 - Nov 2022
Samples for the Tesseract.Net wrapper
Contributions:8 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years
dotnetcsharptesseractwrapper
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