Summary
Michelle Charles is a versatile early-career software engineer and training professional based in Emeryville, CA, with a decade of hands-on experience across customer-facing operations, training, and small-business management. She brings practical front-end skills in React and JavaScript along with backend familiarity in Node, Express, SQL and some Python, informed by a software apprenticeship and a hackathon-winning project. Her background running businesses, managing payroll and operations, and advising clients on insurance gives her a rare combination of technical curiosity and operational rigor. As a Training Associate and former frontend apprentice, she excels at onboarding, curriculum contribution, and community building—skills that make her a strong bridge between engineering teams and non-technical stakeholders. Quietly resourceful and comfortable leading both people and processes, she leverages performance training and client-facing experience to communicate complex ideas clearly.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, 3.8, High School Diploma, 3.8 at Encinal High School
University of California Santa Cruz
Music Performance, General, Music Performance, General at Cabrillo College