Charlie Needham
Software Development Team Lead at Interac Corp.
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolCharlie Needham is a software development team lead with 10 years of experience building and shipping mobile and enterprise applications across startups and large organisations. He progressed from a Master's internship to leading a cross-platform mobile team, routinely contributing code in Swift/SwiftUI and Kotlin/Compose while also owning releases via App Store Connect, Google Play Console and TeamCity pipelines. His background spans C#, .NET, WinForms, WCF and low-level C work, giving him a pragmatic edge when designing integrations between mobile clients and complex backend systems. Comfortable in both Agile and waterfall processes, he balances hands-on development, technical design and people management for teams of six developers. Notably, he helped shape digital identity and wallet projects that use Verifiable Credentials and blockchain-inspired backend flows, combining product-facing UX work with security-minded architecture. Based in Old Toronto, he keeps coding to stay current while coordinating QA, PM and release engineering across distributed teams.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Applied Computing, Master’s Degree Applied Computing at University of Toronto2.1 Computer Science BEng (Hons), 2.1 Computer Science BEng (Hons) at University of York
Github Skills (8)
intellij-plugin5
intellij-platform5
react4
gerrit4
java3
intellij3
code-review2
git2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
jennaleeb/journey_wireframes
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:27 commits, 24 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
reactphysiotherapysimple-ui
uwolfer/gerrit-intellij-plugin
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Gerrit Code Review Tool Integration for the IntelliJ Platform
Contributions:1 issue in 1 day
intellij-platformreviewintellij-ideintellij-plugingerrit-plugin
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