Chuck Smith
CTO & Co-founder at Fluent GTM
Duluth, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChuck Smith is a technology executive and hands-on software engineer with 11+ years of leadership across startups and large cloud organizations, currently serving as CTO and co-founder of Fluent GTM while also providing fractional CTO/CISO/CIO consulting. He builds high-performing, scalable backend systems and founded Satellite, which trained hundreds for tech sales using a nimble stack of no-code tools and custom analytics. Previously he scaled engineering and security at Textio—creating their infosec program and achieving ISO 27001 in eight months—and led critical EC2 networking services at AWS. Equally comfortable in data warehousing, distributed systems, and ML pipelines, Chuck excels in high-growth environments where decisions are made with imperfect information. A Caltech CS graduate with a background that spans AI, EdTech, BioTech, and cloud computing, he combines product-minded engineering with a focus on people and community impact. An inexhaustible curiosity for design patterns drives him to turn complex problems into practical, resilient systems.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bellarmine College PreparatoryCalifornia Institute of Technology
English, French
Github Skills (8)
cookbook6
database5
ruby5
infrastructure-management5
monitoring5
etl4
time-series3
influxdb3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pinchaque/etl
Sep 2014 - Aug 2017
Contributions:112 commits, 13 PRs, 97 pushes in 2 years 11 months
etlrubyflexible
pinchaque/lifeforms
Jan 2025 - Apr 2025
Artificial life simulation
Contributions:40 PRs, 126 pushes, 42 branches in 2 months
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