Summary
Charles Bassett is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building high-performance backend and full-stack systems, currently shaping cloud-native microservices and CI/CD at Cloudvirga. He has a strong track record of architecting resilient, queue-based services, messaging frameworks, and centralized microservices like an internal email API, and has consistently driven dramatic performance gains—from 95% faster API endpoints to multi-fold improvements in spatial algorithms and SQL query times. Comfortable across the full stack and operational tooling, Charles combines Terraform, Docker, Azure, and YAML-driven pipelines with pragmatic cost and latency optimizations. He pairs a formal Software Engineering education and math background with hands-on ownership of distributed systems, and uniquely maintains both the professional name Charles Bassett and his birthname Charles Stouten. Based in Houston, he thrives on translating complex business needs into maintainable, observable systems that scale.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at Minnesota State University, Mankato