Charlie Gleason
Principal Systems Engineer at Cloudflare
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolCharlie Gleason is a Principal Systems Engineer with 13 years of cross-disciplinary experience blending design, front-end engineering, and systems thinking across startups and major platforms. He has led teams and product-facing design at Salesforce, Heroku, and Replicate (acquired by Cloudflare), and now applies that hybrid craft to infrastructure-scale challenges at Cloudflare. Trained as a designer with first-class honours and a later computer science master's, he excels at turning complex technical problems into usable, elegant experiences. Charlie is also an active open-source contributor — from refining docs for Cloud Native Buildpacks to improving the macOS color picker Pika — demonstrating a knack for improving developer and user-facing tooling. Colleagues describe him as a creative technologist who pushes both aesthetic and technical boundaries while instituting processes that scale.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Of Design With First Class Honours Multimedia Design, Bachelor Of Design With First Class Honours Multimedia Design at Swinburne University of TechnologyMasters of Computer Science Computer Science, Masters of Computer Science Computer Science at RMIT University
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Github Skills (16)
css10
color-picker10
macos10
hugo10
swiftui-app10
ui-design10
documentation10
swiftui10
sc9
application9
android-app9
iphone-app9
scs9
website-design8
site-design8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
superhighfives/pika
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
An open-source colour picker app for macOS
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:54 releases, 7 reviews, 274 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Charlie's commits primarily focused on front-end development within the macOS color picker app, "Pika." They implemented and styled UI components, including the eyedropper button and color swatch display, making modifications to the appearance and functionality of the user interface. The user integrated the color pickers with the preferences panel, allowing users to choose preferences, adding various menu options. These contributions enhance the app's usability and visual presentation.
swiftpickermacosxcodeswiftui
buildpacks/docs
Nov 2018 - Mar 2019
Web content for Cloud Native Buildpacks
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:23 commits, 5 PRs, 15 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Charlie's primary contribution revolves around the development and refinement of documentation for the Cloud Native Buildpacks project. They refactored the documentation structure, enhanced the styling, updated the navigation, and addressed broken links. The user also created content, and added more detailed instructions.
buildpackscloud-nativecloud-native-buildpacks
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