# Charles Ling

> Principal Engineer at GoDaddy

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/charlesling

I love getting things done.

I work on high-impact, cross-org initiatives at the intersection of AI, knowledge systems, and platform architecture. I partner with leadership, product, and engineering to turn ambiguous problems into durable systems that scale.

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ GoDaddy
Jan 2025 – Present
Created GoDaddy's next-gen AI Website Builder, offering a hybrid AI/manual experience optimized for our SMBs. Powered by a suite of intelligent Agents, we do the heavy lifting for users in the online space so they can focus on running their business; we research your needs for your industry, and surface the keys to make your website successful. We'll even automate all this for you if you wish.

Design agentic and knowledge-driven systems to connect different parts of the org and scale solutions across teams and products.

### Principal Software Engineer @ GoDaddy
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | San Jose, California, United States
Shared Services / R&D
Architect and build solutions for teams across all business units. Fluid cross-functional roles. Ad-hoc deployment and support for products and teams as needed. Solve large-footprint problems with minimal guidance and dynamic requirements.

Key contributor to our AI platform to enable teams to leverage OpenAI and AWS Bedrock. Built security solutions for our on-prem data layer on top of Cassandra.  Currently building our Agentic AI platform so teams across GoDaddy can deliver better solutions for our customers.

### Senior Software Engineer @ GoDaddy
Jan 2018 – Jan 2023 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
Websites + Marketing

### Senior Software Engineer @ GoDaddy
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018
Pro and Hosting services

### Software Engineer @ IBM
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015
Java/mainframe based tools and web apps.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science and Engineering
UCLA


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/czling

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Last updated: 2026-04-01