Charlie Key
Director Growth And Strategy, Industrial Platforms
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolCharlie Key is an experienced technology founder and growth leader with 11+ years building scalable developer platforms and enterprise IoT solutions from Cincinnati. As co-founder and former CEO of Losant, he led a platform that manages millions of devices and real-time actions, and now drives industrial platform growth and strategy at SUSE. He combines hands-on engineering roots in Node.js and platform hosting with business leadership—taking startups from accelerator stages to acquisition and enterprise adoption. An active angel investor and board member, Charlie brings a rare mix of product design sensibility, operational rigor, and developer-first marketing. He also contributes to the regional tech ecosystem through advising, teaching, and nonprofit governance, reflecting a long-term commitment to developer education and community building.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Engineering, Computer Engineering, Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (19)
logging10
nodejs10
fs9
elasticsearch6
modulus6
mongodb6
heroku6
rest6
websocket6
mongoose6
socket-io6
npm6
javascript6
iot-platform3
mqtt3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Losant/mqtt-garage-opener-example
Dec 2015 - Jun 2016
A sample Node.js and MQTT application to show how a remote garage opener could work.
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 5 months
mqttnodejs
XervoIO/tech-examples
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Great examples of technical pieces.
Contributions:3 PRs, 7 pushes, 5 comments in 15 days
javagreatpieces
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