Charlotte Koch
Owner at Magenta Stripe Media
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCharlotte Koch is a versatile software engineer and small-business founder based in the San Francisco Bay Area with a decade of hands-on experience spanning build systems, cross-compilation, embedded and multimedia software, and OS-level development. As owner of Magenta Stripe Media she runs end-to-end publishing operations—from authoring and illustration to web and prepress IT—bringing a maker's mindset to product and customer fulfillment. She holds commit access to the NetBSD source tree and pkgsrc, where she ports and maintains games and retro platform support, and actively contributes to the popular TIC-80 fantasy computer by integrating the Janet scripting language to expand its modding capabilities. Her background as a build engineer at multiple consumer-audio and robotics companies reflects deep expertise in reproducible packaging, cross-platform tooling, and porting third-party software to custom OSes. Comfortable moving between kernel work, system-level networking, and creative media production, she combines technical rigor with artistic sensibility. An interdisciplinary nerd and longtime NetBSD/pkgsrc fan, she pairs open-source stewardship with entrepreneurial ambition.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Media and Cultural Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Media and Cultural Studies at University of California, RiversideHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Los Altos High School
English, French
Github Skills (12)
c1710
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c1110
game-engine10
apidoc10
game-dev9
game-development9
8-bit9
r8
retroprogramming8
retrofit8
retrocomputing8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
nesbox/TIC-80
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
TIC-80 is a fantasy computer for making, playing and sharing tiny games.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:17 commits in 4 days
Contributions summary:Charlotte is actively working on integrating the Janet programming language into the TIC-80 fantasy computer, adding bindings for various API functions. They are implementing the Janet API, including functions for graphics, input, and memory management. Their contributions involve defining function signatures, handling input parameters, and integrating Janet functions with the TIC-80 core. The user appears to be focused on expanding the scripting capabilities of TIC-80 through Janet.
tic-80gamesretro8bitgamedev
dressupgeekout/cfklp
Feb 2018 - Sep 2023
Contributions:6 pushes in 5 years 8 months
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