Senior Software Engineer @ From July 2015 to Present (5 months) Co-Founder and CTO @ 4 years experience as the technical lead of a small, independent, rapidly evolving startup focused on product discovery and price comparison in the mobile shopping space. Implemented and iterated the Android app (250K+ downloads), to scan barcodes as well as display and collect product, price, and user information via our backend server. Built a RESTful API to support the Android, iOS, and web applications. Used the Django framework to construct and administer a database of 80M+ products and 1B+ price points, to power the API, and to serve both static and dynamic web content. Implemented the price comparison and product identification engines, price alerts, product collections, social connectivity, and the scan history/rewards service. Created tools to deploy our infrastructure using AWS services, including EC2, RDS, S3, SES, and SQS. Rapidly added new features and functionality to both the frontend apps and the backend servers as determined by user demand, technology trends, and company direction. Coordinated the tech team with a central focus on building out and interacting with the API. Maintained all software repositories under version control with Github. From February 2011 to June 2015 (4 years 5 months) Staff Scientist @ 5.5 years experience designing, implementing, and testing algorithms. Software lead and configuration manager of several end-user tools for the automation of complex data analysis techniques. Delivered software products, end-to-end algorithms complete with a GUI and documentation, after a thorough testing and code review process conforming to CMMI standards. Performed statistical analysis of data for development and testing of hypotheses. Developed a working knowledge of advanced signal processing techniques using physics and applied mathematics, and translated these insights into working algorithmic form. Interacted with customers frequently to deliver status reports and determine requirements. From August 2005 to February 2011 (5 years 7 months)

MS, Biomedical Engineering @ University of Southern California From 2002 to 2005 BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology From 1998 to 2002 Charlie Sharp is skilled in: Android, iPhone, Mobile Applications, Django, Python, MySQL, Java, C++, Fortran, Matlab, Perl, Linux, Amazon Web Services