Summary
Charlie Mitchell is a senior software engineer with 11 years of professional experience building full-stack, production-grade systems and leading engineering teams from individual contributor to management roles. Currently at Change.org after several leadership and staff engineering positions at HomeLight, he has a track record of driving scalable web architectures, microservices, and performance optimizations. He’s comfortable across stacks—Node, PHP, databases (MongoDB, MySQL, CouchDB), search, message queues, and container orchestration—and has shipped everything from accounting suites to customer-facing platforms. Known for mentoring junior engineers and aligning cross-functional teams, he blends hands-on implementation with pragmatic people leadership. Based in Seattle, he pairs startup agility with enterprise-grade rigor and a background that includes hands-on live sound engineering, reflecting a practical, systems-oriented mindset.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Chemistry, Chemistry at Diablo Valley College