Charles Pinnix

VP Sr Lead Software Engineer | AI Engineering & Product Leadership

Summary

Senior engineering leader with 15+ years shipping high-impact digital products across enterprises and startups. As a VP-level engineer at JP Morgan Chase, I build front-end and full-stack applications for two AI-powered products and align product, design, and engineering to ship AI inside institutions with real stakes. My range across front-end architecture, full-stack delivery, and UX design lets me work credibly across disciplines.

Selected Experience

VP Sr Lead Software Engineer — JP Morgan Chase (2022-Present)

Lead engineering delivery for two AI products: an intelligence-driven news platform and an enterprise speech-to-text and summarization application.
Own front-end architecture (React) for the news product and full-stack delivery for speech workflows, turning complex AI capability into usable product experience.
Align product, design, and engineering roadmaps to ship high-impact releases with strong cross-team coordination.

Senior Front End Engineer, UX Designer — Inky Technology Corporation (2021-2022)

Consolidated two front-end products into a unified experience, improving delivery efficiency and sales clarity.
Built a design system across Figma and Storybook to raise UI consistency and development speed.

Senior / Front End Engineer — Updater (2018-2021)

Delivered experimentation and analytics foundations that supported multi-million-dollar outcomes.
Drove migration toward a modern Next.js architecture and durable design-system patterns.

Selected Projects

Synesthesia — Real-Time Music Visualization (2024-Present)

Architected a real-time MIDI-to-color pipeline (RxJS) driving 35+ modular visual components that hold a sustained 60 FPS via cached DOM references, batched reads/writes, and React-bypassing animation paths.
Built a headless Node MIDI hub that fans pre-computed snapshots out to any number of browser tabs over WebSocket for synchronized multi-display performances.

Topdeck — Full-Stack Collection & Deck Intelligence (2024-Present)

Built a full-stack Next.js 16 and SQLite application with nightly ETL pipelines that stream a 2 GB Scryfall dataset and refresh live market pricing.
Engineered a deck-analysis engine exposed as a CLI-first agent interface (structured JSON) so AI tools ground recommendations in deterministic card facts rather than model inference alone.

Core Skills

AI Product Development, LLM Integration, Enterprise AI Adoption, React, JavaScript, Node.js, Front-End Architecture, Full-Stack Delivery, Cross-Functional Leadership, Product Roadmap Execution, Design Systems, Storybook, Figma, Next.js, RxJS, SQLite, Tailwind, Jest, Cypress, GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor

Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Maryland

Summary

Selected Experience

VP Sr Lead Software Engineer — JP Morgan Chase (2022-Present)

Lead engineering delivery for two AI products: an intelligence-driven news platform and an enterprise speech-to-text and summarization application.

Own front-end architecture (React) for the news product and full-stack delivery for speech workflows, turning complex AI capability into usable product experience.

Align product, design, and engineering roadmaps to ship high-impact releases with strong cross-team coordination.

Senior Front End Engineer, UX Designer — Inky Technology Corporation (2021-2022)

Consolidated two front-end products into a unified experience, improving delivery efficiency and sales clarity.

Built a design system across Figma and Storybook to raise UI consistency and development speed.

Senior / Front End Engineer — Updater (2018-2021)

Delivered experimentation and analytics foundations that supported multi-million-dollar outcomes.

Drove migration toward a modern Next.js architecture and durable design-system patterns.

Selected Projects

Synesthesia — Real-Time Music Visualization (2024-Present)

Architected a real-time MIDI-to-color pipeline (RxJS) driving 35+ modular visual components that hold a sustained 60 FPS via cached DOM references, batched reads/writes, and React-bypassing animation paths.

Built a headless Node MIDI hub that fans pre-computed snapshots out to any number of browser tabs over WebSocket for synchronized multi-display performances.

Topdeck — Full-Stack Collection & Deck Intelligence (2024-Present)

Built a full-stack Next.js 16 and SQLite application with nightly ETL pipelines that stream a 2 GB Scryfall dataset and refresh live market pricing.

Engineered a deck-analysis engine exposed as a CLI-first agent interface (structured JSON) so AI tools ground recommendations in deterministic card facts rather than model inference alone.

Core Skills