Christian Charukiewicz is a Co-Founder and Partner at Foxhound Systems, a custom software development company with a focus on building fast, secure, and reliable software systems. Prior to founding Foxhound Systems, Christian was the CTO of a Chicago tech startup where he led a team of several engineers and drove the adoption of both Haskell and Elm as languages for building key components of the production system.

Christian has been using functional programming languages professionally since 2016, starting with Elm and then later moving on to Haskell. He is passionate about teaching and has mentored several team members with no prior functional programming experience to become proficient Haskell programmers.

Beyond tech and business, Christian is a cooking enthusiast, avid reader, hobbyist photographer, and enjoys seeking out and brewing unique varieties of coffee.