Charlie Savage

Charlie Savage is the Chief Architect at Orbital Insight, a position he has held since July 2021.1 In this role, he is responsible for designing, building, and scaling Orbital Insight's TerraScope platform, which is described as the only platform in the world that blends computer vision and geolocation sensor data to detect changes, monitor activity, and discover patterns of life at any location.1

Key Responsibilities

As Chief Architect, Charlie's duties include:

• Overseeing the overall platform architecture
• Designing various microservices
• Scaling TerraScope to process terabytes (and soon petabytes) of data
• Meeting daily with developers to prioritize work and address implementation and design questions
• Collaborating with DevOps to create Terrabox, an easily installable version of TerraScope for private clouds and on-premise deployments1

Professional Background

Prior to his current role, Charlie has held several notable positions:

• Senior Engineering Manager at Pattern Computer (2019-2021), where he helped build a revolutionary discovery engine for detecting patterns in complex datasets.1
• Vice President at Simpleview (2018-2019), integrating Zerista's product and engineering teams.1
• CTO at JackRabbit Systems, Inc. (2016-2018), leading Zerista's cloud-based event management platform.1
• Founder and CEO of Zerista, Inc. (2007-2016), where he created a cloud-based event management platform.1

Expertise

Charlie Savage has demonstrated expertise in:

• Platform architecture and scaling
• Cloud-based technologies
• Mobile development
• Security and compliance (including GDPR)
• DevOps and CI/CD processes
• Enterprise software development

His experience spans various industries, including geospatial technology, event management, and pattern recognition in complex datasets.1