# Charles Steele

> Lead Software Engineer at Klaviyo

Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/charlessteele

Hardworking and motivated software engineer with 3+ years of experience working in fast-paced startup environments. Passionate about building scalable, maintainable software to solve complex problems.

## Work Experience
### Lead Software Engineer @ Klaviyo
Jan 2025 – Present | Boston, Massachusetts, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Klaviyo
Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States

### Software Engineer @ Klaviyo
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Greater Boston Area

### Software Engineer @ Shoptelligence
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Ann Arbor, MI

### Software Engineering Intern @ FarmLogs
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Ann Arbor, MI
Frontend responsibilities included adding features and fixing bugs in FarmLogs’ Backbone.js/React.js web app, completing code maintenance tasks such as porting legacy Backbone.js Views over to reusable React.js components (as well as generalizing existing React components) in order to reduce technical debt, and contributing to FarmLogs’ UI components library by creating reusable and composable React.js components.  Assisted in data engineering tasks such as testing SQL queries used in Airflow DAG's.  Developed Python client library for communicating with a microservice (via REST API).

### Software Engineering Intern @ Salsify
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Boston, Massachusetts
Added features and fixed bugs in Salsify’s Ruby on Rails backend web app, as well as in Salsify’s Ember frontend web apps.  Added features to Salsify’s Slack and Salesforce integration apps (both Ruby on Rails) to facilitate use for developers not on the engineering team.  Wrote tools to automate the parsing and translation of large Microsoft Excel files into JSON documents to assist the Customer Success team in the onboarding of new clients.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Salsify
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Boston, MA
Created dashboards to display important metrics from Salsify's various performance monitoring services to facilitate the debugging process.  Acquired skills in product content management and web application development.

### Intern @ Jumptap, Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Boston, MA
Acquired skills in mobile advertising and web development.  Utilized Apache Tomcat web server to complete projects involving Java servlets.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science in Engineering in Computer Science in Computer Science
University of Michigan College of Engineering


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-28