Charles Young
Hood River County Emergency Manager
Hood River, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Young is a pragmatic technology leader and systems builder with 12+ years of hands-on experience designing servers, networks, and user-focused software across desktop, mobile, and embedded screens. As Hood River County Emergency Manager and former president of Neural Glue, he blends emergency management and business continuity expertise with a long track record of architecting resilient, automated infrastructure for enterprises. He excels at translating complex problem spaces into elegant solutions that remove repetitive work and improve users’ lives, whether leading teams or building solo. His background ranges from ICT director roles and founding technical consultancies to opening a US office for a database startup, reflecting deep experience in operations, security, and process resiliency. Based in Hood River, Oregon, he brings a rare combination of systems-level thinking and interface empathy that prioritizes appropriate complexity and delightful flows. Colleagues rely on him to turn messy operational requirements into predictable, maintainable systems that quietly reduce drudgery.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Sydney Boys HighUNSW Sydney
Github Skills (33)
linux9
powershell9
shell8
macos8
netcore8
command-line8
windows8
ruler5
layout5
javascript4
iphone4
server-side-swift4
python4
sdk4
aws4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
NeuralGlue/OSX_Server_Notes
Nov 2015 - Jan 2020
Contributions:10 commits, 10 pushes in 4 years 2 months
NeuralGlue/fluent-postgis
Jul 2020 - Apr 2021
Swift PostGIS support for FluentPostgreSQL and Vapor
Contributions:3 PRs, 8 pushes, 4 branches in 9 months
swiftiospostgisvapor
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