Charlie Hess
Founder at MinMax Studios
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolCharlie Hess is a founder and veteran software engineer with 11 years of professional experience building robust desktop, web, and realtime systems from early-stage startups to large platforms. Previously a Staff Engineer at Slack, Charlie improved core RTM client reliability and reconnection logic while contributing across Electron and NVIDIA projects to enhance cross-platform integrations and media features. He’s an active open-source contributor in the react-three-fiber ecosystem—improving postprocessing, HMR stability, and developer experience—and has shipped both front-end and back-end improvements spanning TypeScript types to retry policies and test automation. Based in New York, he blends hands-on engineering with product-minded leadership, and quietly prefers shipping solid developer tooling and test suites that make teams’ lives easier.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Utah
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (59)
unit-testing10
threejs10
javascript10
slack-api10
electron10
apidoc10
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gulp10
typescript10
websocket10
react-three-fiber10
mochajs10
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
CharlieHess/slack-poker-bot
Apr 2015 - Dec 2016
A bot that deals Texas Hold'em games in Slack
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 releases, 225 commits, 35 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Charlie implemented core model classes for a Texas Hold'em poker bot, including `Card` and `Deck`. They also added and transitioned testing frameworks, moving from Grunt to Gulp and incorporating Mocha/Chai for unit testing of the poker model functionality. The user refactored code and added additional unit tests for deck functionality.
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slackapi/node-slack-sdk
Apr 2015 - Oct 2017
Slack Developer Kit for Node.js
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:36 commits, 9 PRs, 9 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Charlie primarily focused on enhancing the RTM client within the Node.js Slack SDK, adding support for connecting via `rtm.connect`. They introduced the ability to configure the client to use `rtm.connect` and wrote tests to ensure this functionality. Furthermore, the user modified the retry policies and made logging improvements for the client's error handling and reconnection logic, which impacted the client's robustness. The user also addressed issues related to the ping-pong mechanism, further enhancing the client's reliability.
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