Charles Anderson
Adjunct Instructor at Western Oregon University
Monmouth, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Anderson is an experienced systems architect, technical leader, and educator with nearly three decades building everything from firmware and kernels to database internals, distributed backend services, and Kubernetes-based infrastructure. He has led remote and distributed teams, accelerated release cadences, and implemented secure fleet onboarding and FedRAMP-oriented 2FA at scale while managing thousands of servers in AWS. Comfortable as both hands-on developer and manager, he has driven migrations, performance tuning, and production rollouts across startups and enterprise teams, and contributed bug fixes and spec-correct behavior to Ruby tooling such as mock_redis. Now teaching computer science courses in data structures, languages, and databases, he brings practical production experience into the classroom. Based in rural western Oregon, he prefers remote roles and combines deep systems-level expertise with pragmatic delivery and process improvements. An understated polymath, he pairs early kernel and telecom-era systems work with modern cloud-native patterns, giving him rare end-to-end perspective.
27 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
C.Phil - ABD Operations Research, C.Phil - ABD Operations Research at University of California, Berkeley
German
Github Skills (3)
redis10
rspec10
ruby10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sds/mock_redis
Feb 2012 - Oct 2012
Mock Redis gem for Ruby
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Charles primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the `mock_redis` gem. Their work addressed issues related to the `zrange` and `zremrangebyrank` commands, ensuring they returned correct and consistent results, especially when dealing with edge cases and large datasets. The user also refactored existing zset and hash methods, addressing inconsistencies in how the system handles non-string values and making sure that the methods operate according to Redis specifications. Their work included writing and modifying tests to guarantee the stability and reliability of the mock Redis implementation.
mockredisgemruby
cander/cander.github.io
Jan 2015 - Feb 2024
Contributions:14 pushes, 2 branches in 9 years 2 months
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