Summary
Charlie Depman is a multidisciplinary technology leader and co-founder-turned-CTO with 12 years of experience building mission-driven platforms at the intersection of public-interest tech, health, and urban mobility. He helped scale Ridepanda from startup to enterprise partnerships with employers like Amazon and Google, then shifted into strategic advising while designing civic and harm-reduction platforms such as The America I Want and OpenSubstance.org. A hands-on engineer familiar with full-stack systems, IoT integrations, and data-driven dashboards, he blends product, design, and operational rigor across Kotlin, Go, React, and cloud-native tooling. Charlie’s career spans teaching, curriculum design, and international environmental work, informed by nearly two decades living in global cities from Nairobi to Taipei. He favors technically ambitious projects that deliver measurable social impact and often connects personal motivation to his work—most visibly in a harm-reduction project inspired by his late father, an emergency physician.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Computer Science, The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Chinese Government Language Scholarship Chinese Language and Literature, Chinese Government Language Scholarship Chinese Language and Literature at Southwest University
CS 101 Computer Science, CS 101 Computer Science at NYU Shanghai
East Asian Studies, East Asian Studies at McGill University
Toin International Exchange Student (TIES) Program Japanese Language and Literature, Toin International Exchange Student (TIES) Program Japanese Language and Literature at Toin Gakuen
St. Thomas's Day School
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Hack Reactor
BA Asian Language and Culture, BA Asian Language and Culture at The University of British Columbia
Chinese Language and Literature, Chinese Language and Literature at National Taiwan Normal University
Diploma Chinese, Diploma Chinese at Choate Rosemary Hall