Charlie Hoover

Full Stack Programmer working to implement next generation user interfaces and connectivity to AI systems.

Contact

Email

cphoover+jobs@gmail.com

Phone

(301) 922-6059

About

Nerd and hacker with over a decades experience in Javascript and Node.js. In years past, I have helped organize open source tech events. I have given speeches and lectures on various open source and software and technology-centered topics. A Maryland guy born and raised, when I'm not coding I enjoy canoe camping along the Potomac river, or sailing in the bay. I love getting out in nature, cooking, and trying delicious new foods!

Work

Freelance Consultant

– Present

Email Client Enhanced with AI/NLP

Highlights
  • Python
  • AI/NLP Spacy, LangChain, Microsoft Guidance
  • Use Spacy, and Transformer Models for categorization of emails, Named-entity-recognition, summarization...etc.
  • Pulumi Infrastructure as Code
  • Node.js, ESLatest
  • Nearley.js (Earley Parser)
  • Writing a natural query language for advanced searching for emails. Think of gmail search on steroids. Defined an EBNF grammar and compiled to javascript parser with Nearley.js. Generated Parser parses valid input and generates abstract syntax tree (ast)

T. Rowe Price

Associate Vice President, Senior Software Engineer troweprice.com

Investment Management/Financial Services

Highlights
  • Initial Committer First Enterprise-wide UI component library (React-based)
  • Introduced Peer-review standard as part of SDLC for league of scrum teams.
  • Added Investment Account Funding from external accounts via Plaid 3P Integration
  • Principal Architect of V2 Retail Buying Experience
  • Principal Architect of V2 Retail Shopping Experience

Upside Travel

Software Engineer upside.com

At Upside, I successfully designed and built out our omni-channel communication strategy. This included architecting and building in-app messaging, email, and phone communication channels. I built and optimized our communication and task routing algorithm, so our 24/7 concierge team could be assigned new cases under high-load in real-time. In collaboration with a couple of other engineers, I won the Upside.com hackathon with an Amazon Alexa app connected to internal services, including flight status (e.g. "Alexa is my flight on time?").

Highlights
  • Won annual Upside hackathon
  • Successfully designed, built, and launched omni-channel communication platform for navigators.

Under Armour

Software Engineer ua.com

In my role as a full-stack developer, I worked on a large-scale, highly available e-commerce platform. I led a team at Under Armour on Application Performance Management (APM), setting up a custom-built system for real-time monitoring and alerts on key metrics of system performance across the cluster. This system was used during peak retail season when huge variance from our normal traffic pattern occurred. I also worked on various initiatives and systems, including the first responsive redesign and rebuild of the ecommerce website, search and checkout subsystems and many others.

Highlights
  • Cloud Orchestration
  • Deployments
  • Automation
  • Production/On-Call Support
  • Microservice Design/Implementation
  • Node.js and Scala Architecture & Development

ADG Creative

Senior UI Engineer adgcreative.net

At ADG, my projects included work in the commercial, federal, and not-for-profit sectors. I worked extensively with defense clients and governmental agencies. Portfolio available upon request.

Highlights
  • Led front-end development strategy at ADG.
  • Helped architect core front-end libraries and frameworks.

Fathom Creative

Senior UI Engineer fathomcreative.com

At Fathom Creative, I developed, executed, and completed multiple commercial, federal and non-profit websites, mobile applications and other interactive applications for local, regional and national entities including Carfax, GPO, GSA, Paxton Vanlines, American Chemical Society and the American Chemical Council.

Skills

Frontend

  • User Interface Design
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Responsive/Adaptive/Mobile-First
  • Javascript
  • React
  • Storybook
  • Pattern Library

Backend

  • REST/HATEOAS
  • HTTP
  • GraphQL
  • Node.js
  • PHP
  • Scala
  • Java
  • Clojure
  • Python
  • others...

Databases

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MSSQL
  • Redis
  • MongoDB
  • ElasticSearch
  • others...

Cloud

  • AWS
  • Serverless
  • Service Oriented Architecture
  • GRPC, REST
  • Pub Sub
  • Queuing
  • Kubernetes

References

I've worked with Charlie at two agencies. I interviewed and recommended him for hire at the first, then assisted in recruiting him to the second. In both agencies, his thirst for keeping up with the latest tech trends and skills, near superhuman ability to learn new things on the fly, and unwavering team spirit is what made him invaluable. He's a developer on paper, but also has a keen design eye for animation timing, grid systems, color, feedback states, and all of the other details that polish a UI experience. More important than any of those skills though, Charlie is a futurist and a visionary. He's the person to be given a task and to come back with multiple ways of accomplishing the task better than expected, as a reflection of his pulse on the rapidly evolving human-computer world. I've helped hire Charlie twice and I'd do it many more times

Anthony D. Paul - Global Product Strategy and Foresight – Applied Innovation at Wabtec Corporation