I started my career as a frontend developer and spent the next seven years in product management, driven by a passion for building meaningful products and collaborating with cross-functional teams to shape long-term product strategy.
Over the past year, I’ve returned to my technical roots, focusing on AI solutions and backend development. My product experience has been invaluable in approaching technical challenges with a user-first mindset while maintaining a systems-thinking approach.
- Currently building an AI-powered news recommender at bepayper.com, a news service provider.
- Learning backend development in Go to deepen my full-stack and systems knowledge.
- Developing a vacation rental management platform as a side-project, using vanilla HTML/JS with Tailwind CSS, a Go web server backend, and PostgreSQL, with CI/CD on AWS.
- Passionate about leveraging AI to solve real user problems—from initial concept through technical implementation.
- Reach me at: charlesaraya@gmail.com