Charles Baer
Board Member at Google
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolCharles Baer is a product leader with 8+ years focused on cloud observability, currently shaping Google Cloud's logging and Cloud Operations as a Group Product Manager and former Solutions Architect. He combines hands-on technical roots—from systems programming and J2EE integration to consulting on Google Apps—with product leadership that blends customer-driven discovery, UX partnership, and engineering delivery. Based in Pittsburgh, he also volunteers as a board member for a longstanding community swim club, reflecting a commitment to civic stewardship beyond tech. Known for translating complex enterprise requirements into scalable observability products, he brings both deep domain knowledge in Google Cloud and a pragmatic, customer-centric approach to product vision.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MST Telecommunications, MST Telecommunications at University of PittsburghCIS Information Science, CIS Information Science at La Roche University
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Github Skills (44)
skaffold10
gcp10
google-cloud10
network-analysis9
google-cloud-platform9
kubernetes9
terraform9
aws9
chronicle9
grpc9
logging9
google-cloud-logging9
microservices8
istio8
iaas8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
blipzimmerman/microservices-demo-1
Jan 2019 - Feb 2020
Sample cloud-native application composed of 10 microservices showcasing Kubernetes, Istio, gRPC, OpenCensus and Skaffold.
Contributions:5 commits, 5 pushes in 1 year 1 month
gcpcloud-sampleskaffoldgrpcistio
GoogleCloudPlatform/observability-analytics-samples
Jan 2023 - Feb 2024
Google Cloud Observability Samples
Contributions:9 PRs, 101 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year
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