Charles Worthington
Chief Technology Officer & Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer at U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolCharles Worthington is Chief Technology Officer and Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs with 13 years of experience modernizing government technology and delivering AI-informed services at scale. He co-created the U.S. Digital Service and has held senior roles across the White House, Presidential Innovation Fellows program, and the United States Digital Service, blending policy, product, and engineering to reshape public-service delivery. A former founder and front-end contributor to notable open-source civic projects like analytics.usa.gov, he pairs hands-on product development with enterprise IT strategy. He has taught design and technology in public service at Harvard Kennedy School, signaling a commitment to cultivating the next generation of public-sector innovators. Known for translating open data and API initiatives into practical apps and hackathons, he brings a practitioner’s curiosity to both technical execution and organizational transformation. Based in Washington, D.C., he combines consulting, startup, and federal experience to drive measurable impact for veterans and citizens.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
A.B. Social Studies, A.B. Social Studies at Harvard University
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Github Skills (15)
html10
css10
responsive-design10
front-end-development10
ui-design9
javascript9
rspec9
analytics8
datetime6
datetime-format6
twitter-bootstrap6
github6
documentation6
ruby6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
18F/analytics.usa.gov
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
The US federal government's web traffic.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:48 commits, 12 PRs, 8 pushes in 16 days
Contributions summary:Charles primarily worked on front-end development tasks, focusing on the user interface and design of the analytics dashboard. Their contributions included setting up and adding stylesheets, implementing a basic grid layout, and adding placeholder elements for various charts. They also updated the HTML structure, incorporated responsive design elements, and made minor style adjustments.
analyticsstatisticsfederal-governmentanalytics-dashboarddap
usds/uswds-docs-template
May 2016 - Aug 2016
A Jekyll site that provides a baseline for a documentation content site, conforming to the U.S. Web Design System.
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 3 months
conformingweb-designjekyll-sitejekylldesign-system
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