Chuck Batson
President CTO at S.V. Sparklemuffin
San Rafael, California, United States
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Top SchoolChuck Batson is a seasoned software engineer and engineering leader with nearly 30 years of experience building mission-critical, resource-efficient systems from low-level firmware to large-scale backend services. As President/CTO of Weathermuffin and a former principal engineer at Zynga and Spire, he combines hands-on coding with architecture and systems optimization, having led zero-downtime migrations, satellite constellation software, and game-engine innovations. He’s an inventor with two patent applications, author of an open-source crypto library, and has shipped 27 commercial game titles across 40 SKUs as well as consumer apps on iOS and Android. Comfortable across C/C++, Python, Ruby/Rails, and cloud-native tooling (Docker, Terraform, AWS), he specializes in diagnosising root causes and creating robust frameworks and APIs for other developers. Outside of software he’s an experienced single-handed sailor who completed a solo Pacific crossing, an EDM producer, and fluent in Thai—traits that reflect a blend of technical rigor, creativity, and adventurous problem-solving.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA)
Thai
Stackoverflow
2,464reputation
375kreached
96answers
4questions
Github Skills (140)
mobile-development10
lime10
windows10
flutter-plugin10
app-framework10
skiasharp10
elliptic-curve-cryptography10
location10
secp256k110
sdk10
skia10
geolocation10
byte10
dart10
base5810
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
cbatson/hxBitcoin
Dec 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:17 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 19 days
cryptographycryptography-librarycryptocurrencybitcoinhaxe
weathermuffin/ckdcatsupplies-site
Oct 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:44 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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