Charlie Harrington
Head Of Engineering at Folio
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCharlie Harrington is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of software and management experience, currently serving as Head of Engineering at Folio in San Francisco. He moved up through technical and managerial roles at Cruise, where he led teams from senior engineer to Engineering Manager II, and earlier helped build product at startups like FloydHub and LendUp. Charlie blends hands-on backend expertise—contributing Rust fixes and integrations to the open-source Roapi project—with strategic leadership for fast-moving consumer and infrastructure products. His background includes finance and business development roles at Morgan Stanley and Knewton, giving him a rare mix of technical, analytical, and commercial perspective. Known for pragmatic problem solving and a dry wit (his GitHub bio reads "It's now safe to turn off your computer"), he focuses on shipping reliable systems and improving developer workflows.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BA History Political Economy, BA History Political Economy at Georgetown UniversityRed Bank Catholic High School
Github Skills (7)
rust10
api10
apidoc10
configuration-management9
rest-api7
sql6
analytics4
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
roapi/roapi
Nov 2021 - Nov 2022
Create full-fledged APIs for slowly moving datasets without writing a single line of code.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 1 tag in 11 months
Contributions summary:Charlie primarily focused on bug fixes, code improvements, and feature enhancements for the Roapi project. Their contributions involved correcting typos, modifying environment variable configurations, and implementing a table reloading mechanism. They also worked on the Google Spreadsheets integration, improving the functionality and addressing potential errors. The user demonstrated proficiency in Rust, API development, and configuration management within the context of this project.
pythonarrowin-memory-databasequery-frontendscolumnar
trusty-cd-rom/wormie
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
Wormie is a React-Native iOS app for requesting videos and live broadcasts from specific locations around the world
Contributions:207 commits, 59 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 month
reactios-appreact-nativevideoswebrtc
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