Hello! I’m Charlie Gorichanaz!
I’m a software engineer based in the San Francisco Bay area. After leaving the beer and brats of my native Milwaukee, I found a home in San Francisco, where my accent sounds fairly neutral, and some people even understand the word bubbler. Then I lived in Tokyo for a year and for a while found it difficult to stay put. I’ve since settled a bit in the East Bay and have been doing as much hiking as I can!
I earned my biochemistry degree while directing The Badger Herald‘s web department and studying Vitamin D in Hector DeLuca‘s lab. Then I spent a month in Buenos Aires before starting my career. I architected systems and solved clients’ business problems for five years and was a product manager for Movable Type.
My years in the lab and at the newspaper, as well as involvement in family businesses since age 10, have taught me to critically analyze and find the best way forward while staying patient, passionate and humble. I try to apply these lessons to all things in life.
I love reading, running, listening to music, recording photos and videos and collecting data of all sorts.
