Work

For more information, checkout my LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/in/charlesaxeldein.

I'm charlax on Github.

Work experience

Uber

Mostly working on Python and JavaScript code.
Test-driven development and rapid prototyping.

faberNovel

Where's My Bus provides real-time departure times in San Francisco for the nearest MUNI bus stops. The source code is on Github.
Being a huge fan of the DRY philosophy, I wrote some scripts in AppleScript to streamline my Omnigraffle wireframing workflow.

I participated in two of faberNovel's annual studies. Both have been featured on TechCrunch and were very well received:

Amazon.com: the Hidden Empire (2011): TechCrunch article, 120k views in the first week, 320k views overall, 17.5k retweets.
Apple: 8 easy steps to beat Microsoft and Google (2010): TechCrunch article, 60k views in the first week, 130k views overall.

Academic work

I first studied history, economy, political sciences and law at Sciences Po Rennes, and later went to École Centrale, an engineering school in Paris.

Here are some documents I produced during my studies:

Nextreme: a startup specialized in thermoelectric cooling
Gérer le risque dans les projets de e-learning (in French)
Dissertation: Google Chrome: Free Software as a launching platform

Side projects

lewebutile: “Chaque jour, vous faire découvrir un outil pour améliorer votre productivité.” (a blog in French)
Read the Python documentation on your Kindle