Chuck Groom
Engineering at Meta
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChuck Groom is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of senior experience building product-led teams and scalable systems across startups and large tech companies, now focusing on smart glasses core infrastructure at Meta in Portland. He has a strong track record as a fractional CTO/VPE and founder, guiding product strategy, architecture, recruiting, and rapid iteration for early-stage ventures in proptech and data platforms. Chuck led the launch of VTS Market and helped grow SurveyMonkey Audience to over $20M ARR, blending hands-on coding with strategic leadership and operational rigor. He repeatedly scales teams through hiring practices, measurable delivery milestones, and pragmatic technical tradeoffs—including migrations, CI/CD improvements, and GDPR efforts. Comfortable switching between individual contributor work and executive responsibilities, he thrives on turning messy data and disparate systems into actionable metrics for product teams. A practical builder with entrepreneurial roots, he often serves as the interim technical leader that helps startups find product-market fit while establishing sustainable engineering cultures.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
The College Preparatory SchoolBA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at Swarthmore College
Github Skills (1)
jekyll3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
chuckgroom/chuckgroom.github.io
Nov 2017 - Nov 2022
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 5 years 1 month
chuckgroom/onepage-bio
Jan 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 years 10 months
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