Charlie Savage
Chief Architect at Privateer
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCharlie Savage is a veteran software architect and founder with 20 years of experience designing and scaling cloud-native, data-intensive platforms from startups to enterprise. As Chief Architect at Privateer he architects a Kubernetes-based geospatial platform that processes terabytes to petabytes of imagery and sensor data, and has designed 20+ microservices supporting edge, air-gapped, and multi-environment deployments. He previously led engineering and strategic planning at Pattern Computer, rebuilding a core discovery engine for 100x performance gains, and has founded and scaled multiple companies through acquisition. A hands-on contributor to open-source projects in the Ruby and geospatial ecosystems, his work includes Windows compatibility fixes for ruby-ffi, performance improvements in ruby-prof, and SWIG/C API enhancements for GEOS. Trained as an engineer at Stanford, he combines deep systems-level expertise with product instincts and a knack for translating complex, high-dimensional problems into practical, deployable architectures.
20 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
MS Environmental Engineering, MS Environmental Engineering at Stanford University
ruby
Github Skills (33)
compatible10
performance-monitor10
performance-analytics10
c-language10
geometry10
multiplatform10
code-profiling10
apidoc10
testing10
windows10
wkb10
cross-platform10
c1110
ruby10
c1710
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
composite-primary-keys/composite_primary_keys
May 2011 - Jan 2023
Composite Primary Keys support for Active Record
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 reviews, 296 commits, 143 PRs in 11 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Charlie primarily contributed to the `composite-primary-keys/composite_primary_keys` repository, which provides composite primary key support for Active Record. Their work focused on adapting the library to support newer versions of Active Record, including versions 6.0.1 and 7.0.1, and included fixing compatibility issues. They also addressed bugs related to creating records with default values and improved the handling of composite keys within MySQL and SQL Server environments.
railsrubykeysactive-recordcomposite
ruby-prof/ruby-prof
Nov 2008 - Jan 2023
A ruby profiler. See https://ruby-prof.github.io for more information.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer / Performance Engineer
Back-end Developer / Performance EngineerContributions:9 reviews, 301 commits, 30 PRs in 14 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Charlie primarily contributed to the development and enhancement of Ruby profiler features. Their work focused on refining the core profiling logic, including call tree generation and method information. They introduced improvements to measure time accurately. Moreover, the user contributed to the project's testing infrastructure by adding and refining existing tests and fixing compilation errors to improve code quality and ensure consistent performance.
railsruby
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