Avi Charlop

Infrastructure-automation tooling and platform work for Closer, the operating system behind regenerative co-living communities ("villages").

• Built a greenfield "one-click village" provisioning system (Bun monorepo, TypeScript) that stands up a complete community-platform instance across DigitalOcean, Vercel, MongoDB, Mailgun, Firebase, and Stripe Connect from a single typed config.
• Designed idempotent, resumable provisioning workflows — a step DAG over durable state — with full teardown, validated by end-to-end tests against live cloud providers.
• Shipped an Ink terminal UI distributed as compiled single-file binaries and an Elysia control API with token auth and streamed mutation endpoints.
• Contributed fixes to the core platform alongside the tooling: a Next.js 15 / Turborepo frontend and a Node + MongoDB API.

• Rebuilt a disaster-relief catering company’s site as a static Astro app, replacing a legacy WordPress install.
• Drove parity with automated visual-regression tests (Playwright across four breakpoints) checking each page against captured live-site baselines.

Greenfield customer portal and multi-source data platform for enterprise media-tech customers.

• Led a 4-engineer team building a greenfield, multi-tenant media-catalog portal as a Turborepo monorepo (Next.js, tRPC, Fastify, Drizzle/Postgres), establishing workflows and code standards across frontend, API, and documentation surfaces.
• Built the multi-source data-sync layer that unified content from upstream fingerprinting systems into a single customer-facing portal.
• Owned GCP infrastructure end-to-end in Terraform — Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, Eventarc, Secret Manager, and VPC — with GitLab CI/CD pipelines for automated deploys.
• Built a Figma-driven design system in Storybook plus catalog browsing, smart-lists, filtering, and tagging, with enterprise auth (WorkOS SSO, scoped API keys); partnered with Sales to turn customer feedback into same-day updates.

• Built a fully type-safe form generator on React Hook Form and the internal MUI component library, standardizing form development and reducing implementation time.
• Introduced Redux Toolkit with RTK Query to simplify state management and data fetching.
• Drove a platform-wide UI-consistency overhaul, contributing Storybook-documented components to the shared library and published client SDK.
• Migrated package management from NPM to GitHub Packages and automated publish/deploy with reusable GitHub Actions workflows.

• Co-created and continue to operate whocards.cc, an owned conversation-card product — an Astro + Stripe storefront on Netlify with an automated end-to-end checkout and fulfillment flow, integrating two third-party fulfillment providers (Zenfulfillment, later Egon) that route orders to regional carriers.
• Built J3D.AI, a real-time AI workshop-summary app (T3 stack: Next.js, tRPC, Prisma, Supabase, GCP) with live audio capture, an ffmpeg-based transcription pipeline, and AI-generated summaries with editable next steps.
• Built proofofperformance.xyz, a live on-chain NFT minting experience on Tezos for a DJ event, using fxhash live-minting tooling.
• Contributed to circa.art and the underlying Tezos NFT marketplace stack (Taquito), letting users purchase video frames during a high-profile launch.

• Built a serverless streaming-media pipeline (AWS Lambda + Bitmovin transcoding) as the primary developer, carrying it from MVP through a startup’s second round of Y Combinator.
• Delivered the Aapryl fintech analytics dashboard MVP end-to-end, frontend and backend, using Angular and Node.js.

Ironhack Bootcamp

March 2016 - May 2016 · Miami

Completed 400+ hours of intensive web development training focused on Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, HTML, Git, and test-driven development through hands-on projects.

City College of New York, CCNY

2011 - 2013 · New York

Pursued coursework in computer science, focusing on algorithms, data structures, and programming principles.