Charles Reitz

Lead Mobile Engineer · AI · San Francisco

I'm Charles Reitz.

I build AI copilots for people who work in the physical world. Currently leading mobile at NavigateAI.

In my free time, you can catch me sharpening my skills on the course ⛳️, sampling the local burrito scene 🌯, or traveling 🌍.

Charles Reitz

Introduction

About me

I've spent my career building mobile software: native iOS at Charlie, React Native at Chime and NavigateAI, where I work on AI copilots for people on job sites, not behind a desk.

  • FocusAI copilots · Mobile · Field tech
  • LocationSan Francisco, CA
  • EducationM.S. & B.S. in Computer Science

Experience

Work

Full-time roles, internships, companies I co-founded, and side projects.

Internships

Open source
Ford Motor Company
Ford Motor Company app icon
Ford Motor Company

Research Intern · Summer 2014 · Dearborn, Michigan

Research internship at Ford. Built and open sourced the Diagnostic Tool, an Android app on the OpenXC platform for OBD-II requests over USB or Bluetooth.

  • Send diagnostic requests and view responses in real time
  • Expanded the OpenXC Android library to support OBD-II
Carpe Noctem Cassel team photo
Carpe Noctem Cassel

Research Intern · Technical Challenge Lead · Summer 2013 · Kassel, Germany

Research internship with the University of Kassel's Carpe Noctem Cassel team, competing in the RoboCup Middle Size League.

  • Led the technical challenge at the world championship in Eindhoven
  • 3rd in the world in the technical challenge, 5th overall in the league
Open source
Ford Motor Company
Ford Motor Company

Research Intern · Summer 2012 · Dearborn, Michigan

Research internship at Ford. Built and open sourced the Rearview Camera, an Android app on the OpenXC platform that adds a backup camera using gear position and a USB webcam.

  • Combines OpenXC vehicle interface data with UVC webcam support on Android
  • Presented to upper management

My companies

Side projects & open source

Libraries and apps I built on my own. Open source from internships is covered above.

Video Bucket
Video Bucket

Creator · 2015 - 2016

iOS app that pulled video from multiple third-party services into one place.

  • Integrated content from several video providers
  • Shipped to the App Store during grad school
Text King
Text King

Creator · 2013 - 2014

iOS apps for saving, editing, and sharing reusable snippets of text.

  • Built a free and paid version of the app
  • Shipped to the App Store while in undergrad
CRDropdownAlert
CRDropdownAlert

Creator · 2014

Open source Swift UI library used by iOS developers as a drop-in alternative to older alert libraries.

  • Customizable views and animations
  • Published on GitHub and CocoaPods

Background

Education & Skills

Education and the tools I reach for most often.

Education

Master's in Computer Science, specialization in Software Engineering

University of Southern California

Focused on software architecture, distributed systems, and building reliable production software.

Skills

Tools, technologies, and languages I work with regularly, plus the spoken kind.

Mobile dev
React NativeiOSAndroid
Backend dev
Python / DjangoGraphQLRailsNode
Frontend dev
ReactTypeScriptAngular
Spoken
  • 🇺🇸 EnglishNative
  • 🇩🇪 GermanFluent
  • 🇫🇷 FrenchConversational
  • 🇪🇸 SpanishBasic

Say hello

Get in touch.

Happy to chat about work, mobile, or AI. Email is the best way to reach me.