🤔 Who am I?

I’m a Lead Developer Advocate at Salesforce, the world’s #1 CRM platform, powered by data and AI. When I’m not blogging on dev.to, contributing to open-source examples or projects, or live streaming, I’m looking for new places to hike with my wife in not-so-sunny Seattle, WA.
🛠 Favorite technologies, frameworks, and top programming languages:
Python, Node, Apex, Vue.js, React, SQL, GraphQL, Stripe, Salesforce, Google Cloud Platform, Google Analytics

🧳 What’s my story?

You can see my resume on LinkedIn page, but here's a quick recap of what I’ve done so far:
 
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Salesforce

Lead Developer Advocate: Empower and inspire Salesforce Developers through code samples, demos, in-person talks, prerecorded videos, and workshops.
 
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Grammarly

Staff Developer Support Specialist: Support developers integrating the Grammarly Text Editor SDK by writing tutorials, updating docs, building demos, and finding creative ways to improve the overall experience of Grammarly’s developer platform
 
 
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Stripe

Senior Developer Advocate: Wrote technical tutorials, built demos, and influenced the direction of Stripe’s SDKs and APIs by gathering insights and feedback from the developer community.
 
 
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Google

Solutions Consultant: Developed and delivered customized solutions, supported developers and customers, and authored internal documentation for Google Analytics and Google Marketing Platform.
 
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Yale University

Earned a Bachelor of Science Degree
Spent a summer semester abroad in Kenya, played IM basketball, and majored in psychology

🤝 Let's connect

To start, the best way to reach out is through LinkedIn. I'm open to speaking at conferences and being a guest on dev live streams.
If you'd like my assistance, it would help to make your request clear and provide the details in advance of a conversation.
~ Charles

Writing

Unlock Multi-Modal AI with File Inputs in Prompt Builder
Go from images to insights with Prompt Builder’s new multi-modal file input feature.
Unlock Multi-Modal AI with File Inputs in Prompt Builder
https://developer.salesforce.com/blogs/2025/05/unlock-multi-modal-ai-with-file-inputs-in-prompt-builder
Unlock Multi-Modal AI with File Inputs in Prompt Builder
Making sense of Stripe Checkout, Payment Links, and the Payment Element
Stripe works to make payments as easy as possible, but sometimes all the industry terms and APIs...
Making sense of Stripe Checkout, Payment Links, and the Payment Element
https://dev.to/stripe/making-sense-of-stripe-checkout-payment-links-and-the-payment-element-23o5
Making sense of Stripe Checkout, Payment Links, and the Payment Element
Invoke Agentforce Agents with Apex and Flow
Augment low-code and pro-code automations in Salesforce by invoking Agentforce agents with Apex and Flow.
Invoke Agentforce Agents with Apex and Flow
https://developer.salesforce.com/blogs/2025/04/invoke-agentforce-agents-with-apex-and-flow
Invoke Agentforce Agents with Apex and Flow
5 reasons why your .env environment variables don't work
It's happened to the best of us. You've just started your dev server after adding in all your...
5 reasons why your .env environment variables don't work
http://dev.to/stripe/5-reasons-why-your-env-environment-variables-dont-work-1hc0
5 reasons why your .env environment variables don't work
Testing Payments with Stripe's New Postman Collections | Postman Blog
This is a guest post written by Charles Watkins, developer advocate at Stripe. Stripe builds payments infrastructure for the internet and exposes APIs for a variety of use cases. To improve the overall developer experience, we recently launched our own team profile on the Postman Public API Network to help anyone explore our payment, billing, and identity APIs.
Testing Payments with Stripe's New Postman Collections | Postman Blog
https://blog.postman.com/testing-payments-with-stripes-new-postman-collection/
Testing Payments with Stripe's New Postman Collections | Postman Blog

Talks & Videos

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