# Charles Mathews

> Software Engineer

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/charlesmathews

I'm a highly resourceful software engineer and team lead responsible for mentoring developers, advancing long-term strategy, and designing thoughtful, robust architecture.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Quanata
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Quanata
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States
Data-driven behavior fuels better lives. Telematics-based insurance solutions built with Golang and gRPC. A State Farm company.

### Software Engineer @ Apex Fintech Solutions
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
Democratizing investing by building frictionless, real-time, scalable software using Golang, Kafka, & gRPC.

- Built high-performance ledger with real-time position, cost basis, and clearing of US equities.
- Ingestion and management of equities (stocks, mutual funds) from IDC, Schwab.
- Some exposure to corporate actions.

### Software Engineer @ Tovala
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
Serving meals that cook themselves.

- Built subscription, invoicing, and rating systems integrating with Stripe, Paypal in Golang.
- Recommended meals to customers using cosine similarity and sentence vectorisation.

### Lead Software Engineer @ Mintel
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Chicago, Illinois, United States

### Software Engineer @ Mintel
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Chicago, Illinois, United States


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
Grove City College


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-01