charles gude
senior software engineer. 13 years shipping end to end — rails backends, react/typescript front ends, and the data pipelines underneath. currently building and operating vindor solo: ingestion, matching, billing, ui, deploys.
// stack
- ruby on rails · react · typescript · postgresql · redis
- go · python · graphql · aws · docker · kamal
- background-job pipelines (solid queue, sidekiq, airflow) · stripe · playwright
// experience
now: building vindor — federal-contract matching saas, sole engineer across product, backend, frontend, and operations.
before: data pipelines at flock safety, rails and go microservices at promoboxx, clinical-trial software at trial by fire, legal tech at one legal, health data at evidation health.
// projects
- vindor — pre-solicitation federal contract matching, delivered by email. rails 8 + react, solo-built and operated.
- gleamdrill — spaced-repetition algorithm drills with in-browser checking in gleam, python, and typescript. fsrs-6 scheduling.
- palma-tui — terminal ui driving a headless claude code session. rust + textual.
- tmux-cheatsheet — searchable tmux cheatsheet popup on prefix + ? — curated rows merged with live list-keys through fzf.
- frogger — frogger component. sits in the bottom right corner until you're ready.