Hey ... I'm Charlie Tarr
I am a Fractional CTO and Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer with 10+ years experience of building and scaling companies.
I am equally comfortable discussing high-level strategic leadership or low-level technical problems.
I have worked in, started and led multiple companies. Likewise, I have created, developed and maintained multiple web platforms.
Please find details of my leadership and technology profile below.
Check out my blog to follow my thinking on tech leadership, business transformations and whatever else is on my mind.
Leadership profile
I recently led a major technological transformation at a group of companies, which is responsible for administering approximately 750 pension schemes.
With £250M+ of assets under administration, 1,000+ clients and 30+ members of staff, it was always going to be a big challenge. When you also consider that almost everything was being done via email and phone calls, with 30+ disparate systems being used behind the scenes, the challenge went to a whole new level of complexity.
To provide an insight into my leadership style, I wrote an article about my experience.
Technology profile
As a CTO, I often encounter major organisational challenges, which require deep research, along with strategic planning and pragmatic problem-solving along the way. To provide an insight into how I approach such challenges, I wrote this article, which is concerned with orchestrating disparate systems, teams and technologies, in a large organisation.
As a senior rails developer, tasked with designing and building web applications, I adhere to a set of guiding principles. You guessed it, I’ve written an article about this too.
I have also put together a 3 minute video, in which I introduce myself and showcase a feature that I built using Ruby on Rails.
My hope is that these articles and videos will provide you with a sense for how I think about and approach my work.
Experience
For more information about my experience, please check out my LinkedIn profile
Let's connect
Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn or drop me an email, if you'd like to connect.
My email address is [email protected]