Charity Majors

Charity Majors is an American software engineer and technology entrepreneur. She is the cofounder and CTO of Honeycomb,[1] which makes code observability software. She was previously an engineer at Parse and Facebook.[2][3]

Bio

Majors grew up in Idaho,[4][5] where she was home schooled and did not interact with computers until college.[6] She studied as a piano major, but dropped out before completing her degree.[7] Majors worked at the software company Parse when it was acquired by Facebook.[8] She then worked at Facebook from 2013 until 2016. In 2016 she founded Honeycomb,[9] a software service that helps withe debugging code.[10] Majors is also an advocate for open source, even at a time when Cloud-based computing is becoming prevalent.[11]

Majors also talks about the value of people alternating engineering and managerial jobs,[12] and is quoted by others on this idea.[13][14]

Selected publications
  • Campbell, Laine; Majors, Charity (2017-10-26). Database Reliability Engineering: Designing and Operating Resilient Database Systems. "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". ISBN 978-1-4919-2622-2.
  • Majors, Charity; Fong-Jones, Liz; Miranda, George (2022-06-14). Observability Engineering: Achieving Production Excellence (1st ed.). Beijing Boston Farnham Sebastopol Tokyo: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-1-4920-7644-5.

References
  1. "Honeycomb.io raises $11.4M to help developers observe and debug their apps". Social.techcrunch.com. 26 September 2019. Retrieved 6 November 2021.
  2. Bort, Julie. "How this startup CEO became a secret weapon for star Valley engineers". Business Insider. Retrieved 6 November 2021.
  3. Rockwell, Nick (14 June 2018). "Talking Technology: Charity Majors". Open.nytimes.com. Retrieved 6 November 2021.
  4. Martel, Frederic (2018-07-05). Smart: The Digital Century. HarperCollins India. ISBN 978-93-5277-016-8.
  5. Joslyn, Heather (2022-09-21). "Charity Majors: Taking an Outsider's Approach to a Startup". The New Stack. Retrieved 2023-05-17.
  6. Noah Labhart (November 17, 2020). "Charity Majors, Honeycomb.io". Code Story (Podcast).
  7. Preimesberger, Chris (March 10, 2020). "eWEEK Data Points: 'A-ha!' Moments for IT Entrepreneurs". eWeek. p. 15306283 – via Gale.
  8. Darrow, Barb (April 11, 2017). "Startup Honeycomb Vows to Show How Software Runs After Release". Fortune. Retrieved 2023-05-17 – via Gale.
  9. Lohr, Steve; Griffith, Erin (2019-11-22). "With Big Tech in Their Path, Start-Ups Turn to Business Markets". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-05-17.
  10. Krill, Paul (November 3, 2016). "Ex-Facebook, Dropbox engineers offer debugging as a service". InfoWorld.com; San Mateo – via Proquest.
  11. Asay, Matt (February 21, 2022). "Why open source is essential in a cloud era". InfoWorld.com ; San Mateo – via Proquest.
  12. Majors, Charity (2017-05-11). "The Engineer/Manager Pendulum". charity.wtf. Retrieved 2023-05-17.
  13. Reilly, Tanya (2022-09-20). The Staff Engineer's Path. "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". p. 302. ISBN 978-1-0981-1870-9.
  14. Moore, Dan (2020), "Your Career", Letters to a New Developer, Berkeley, CA: Apress, pp. 161–197, doi:10.1007/978-1-4842-6074-6_9, ISBN 978-1-4842-6073-9, retrieved 2023-05-17


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