Charles Teague
President at RAND
Lexington, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Teague is a seasoned full-stack technologist and executive with nearly three decades of product and engineering leadership across startups and large companies, currently president of Meridian Research Labs and a RAND fellow focused on evaluating large language models. He built and led teams at Lose It! through acquisition, co-founded Onfolio (acquired by Microsoft), and drove product engineering at Macromedia and Allaire, combining strategic vision with hands-on development. As a core contributor and software architect at Posit, he helped shape Quarto, and his open-source work spans back-end API integrations and UI improvements in high-profile projects like RStudio and Quarto’s CLI and web docs. Based in Lexington, MA, he blends deep technical craftsmanship—implementing nuanced features like emoji handling and reveal templates—with a public-interest focus on AI evaluation and education.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Political Science, B.A. Political Science at Macalester College
Github Skills (15)
html10
css10
apim10
c-language10
templater10
template-engine10
api10
cprogramming-language10
template-tags10
pandoc10
r10
documentation9
json9
user-interface8
ui-design8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
quarto-dev/quarto-cli
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
Open-source scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc.
Role in this project:
Back-end & UI Developer
Back-end & UI DeveloperContributions:140 reviews, 4545 commits, 481 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Charles primarily contributed to the development of a scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc. Their commits demonstrate involvement in the implementation of new features, particularly for a "reveal template". The user made changes to the source code, which included adding new features, modifying code, and creating or modifying templates to enhance the functionality and usability of the publishing system. They made changes that appear to be related to user interface improvements, such as formatting.
pandoc
quarto-dev/quarto-web
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Quarto website
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:21 reviews, 1694 commits, 61 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Charles primarily focused on updating and maintaining the website's documentation, specifically the HTML and CSS aspects of the Quarto website. The contributions involve modifying the layout and styling of the pages, including changes to the CSS styles and the overall structure of the content. The changes demonstrate a focus on improving the presentation and organization of the website's documentation.
quarto
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