Product & Sales Engineer

I make tools that help people truly understand their data.

I build it, I demo it, and I explain it until it clicks. Fluent in SQL, product roadmaps, and "can you just pull the numbers real quick."

Charlie Smith
● status: available

Open to PE/SE roles and a few select consulting projects.

the job, in three verbs
Build the tool.Demo the tool.Explain the tool.
résuméPDF ↓
  • Product & Sales Engineer 2023 — now
  • Solutions Engineer 2020 — 2023
  • Data Analyst 2018 — 2020

Things I've built

plugin screenshot
product

Explain This Chart

A browser plugin that adds plain-English notes to any dashboard, so nobody has to ask what the y-axis means.

CLI + sandbox
sales engineering

Demo Factory

Builds a realistic demo environment from one config file in about 90 seconds, with data that doesn't look fake.

glossary UI
product

Metric Glossary

A searchable dictionary so sales, product and the customer all mean the same thing by "active user."

docs site
open source

The POC Playbook

An open template for running data proofs-of-concept that end with a decision, not another follow-up call.

Latest writing

The Changelog →

Talks & workshops

  • Demo Like You Mean Itworkshop · SE Summit · 2026
  • Your users don't read chartstalk · Local data meetup · 2025
  • From SQL to sales calllecture · University guest lecture · 2025

Hiring? Need a tool that explains itself?

charlie@charliecsmith.com