Charlie Fish
Owner at rrainn
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolCharlie Fish is a pragmatic software engineer and entrepreneur with a decade of experience building cross-platform products, from iOS apps and sync infrastructure to backend APIs and developer tooling. As owner of rrainn and a former ForeFlight iOS engineer, he led impactful projects like migrating WebSocket support to Apple's URLSession, hardened Core Data sync, and introduced per-property write permissions for shared objects. He writes production Swift and JavaScript, contributes to open-source (notably feature work on the Dynamoose DynamoDB mapper), and automates release tooling and blocklist generation workflows. Based in Denver, he pairs deep systems knowledge—WebSockets, Core Data, GraphQL, AWS—with a habit of teaching and mentoring, and brings an uncommon mix of pilot-minded precision and product-focused curiosity to every codebase.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (30)
javascript10
file-manipulation10
automation10
linting10
logging10
nodejs10
automations10
safari9
adblock9
bash9
http9
dynamodb9
javascript-objects9
amazon-dynamodb9
xcode9
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
dynamoose/dynamoose
Aug 2016 - Dec 2022
Dynamoose is a modeling tool for Amazon's DynamoDB
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:92 releases, 213 reviews, 2816 commits in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Charlie's commits focus on adding features to the Dynamoose object, including adding a logger and supporting log status. They implemented the core functionality for logging events, adding features such as logging levels and categories and tests for the functionality. In addition, the user made refactoring changes that are unrelated to these changes, like refactoring the code that manages unknown attributes.
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blocklistproject/Lists
Jun 2021 - Feb 2022
Primary Block Lists
Role in this project:Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:21 reviews, 47 commits, 24 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Charlie primarily contributed to the automation and tooling aspects of the project, developing scripts in JavaScript to generate various blocklist formats for different platforms like NoIP, dnsmasq, and AdGuard. They created scripts to remove duplicates, create an "everything" list, and update the number of domains in the lists. Furthermore, the user implemented a linting script to enforce code style and ensure the lists' integrity.
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