Years of experience: 28
ITEngineerSystem ArchitectDevOpsComputer engineer
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Charles's Career Path
Mar. 2022 -Nov. 2024
AmplitudeDistinguished Engineer
San Francisco Bay AreaBuilt delivery and compute platform based on Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Argo Workflows, Kustomize, ArgoCD, and other cloud-native tooling.
Dec. 2019 -Feb. 2022
PinterestSRE Technical Lead
Palo Alto, CAOrganized senior technical leader council. Deeply involved in using incident management processes to enable institutional learning. Ran Code Yellow process to rescue an HBase-based service in crisis.
Jan. 2018 -Nov. 2019
Palo Alto NetworksSenior Cloud Architect
Santa Clara, CABuilt and managed dozens of Kubernetes clusters from the ground up. Ansible was used for configuration management. Consulted with application engineering teams on how to port VM-based applications to Kubernetes native. Drove the evolution of Big Data pipelines to more modern technologies and increased observability. Kubernetes, Kafka, Prometheus, Elasticsearch, Hadoop.