Charles Burkland
Vice President, Investment Systems at Research Affiliates
Fullerton, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Burkland is a VP of Investment Systems at Research Affiliates with a decade of software engineering experience focused on Python and numerical processing. He progressed rapidly from hands-on engineering roles into leadership, shaping investment systems since 2019 and leading the team as VP since 2022. His background in computer science and math underpins work on performance-sensitive applications, and he brings practical C/C++/C# systems experience from defense and aerospace projects. Outside of finance tech he pursues Python application development and game programming, reflecting a continual drive to explore algorithmic and interactive challenges. Based in Fullerton, CA, he combines production-grade engineering with a knack for translating complex numerical requirements into reliable, maintainable software.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Senior, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Senior at California State University-Fullerton
Github Skills (42)
runtime-type10
programming-language10
python10
immutable-collections10
dataframes10
dataframe10
python-c-extension10
mappings9
function-composition9
data-analysis8
pandas8
data-structure8
conda8
data-science8
axes8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
chaburkland/static-frame
Nov 2019 - Apr 2026
The StaticFrame library consists of the Series and Frame, immutable data structures for one- and two-dimensional calculations with self-aligning, labelled axes.
Contributions:543 pushes, 63 branches in 6 years 6 months
axesframecalculationsconsiststwo-dimensional
chaburkland/arraykit
Mar 2021 - Jun 2024
Utilities for NumPy and StaticFrame
Contributions:194 pushes, 15 branches in 3 years 4 months
crosswordpythonnumpypython-bindingspython3
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