Summary
Charles Brown is a results-driven Senior Product Software Engineer with 27+ years of full-stack and cloud engineering experience and 14 years in senior roles focused on scalable edtech platforms. He specializes in .NET Core (including .NET 8/9), C#, TypeScript, EF Core, AWS (ECS, Aurora, serverless), microservices, and CI/CD, and has led large cloud migrations and a MSSQL-to-PostgreSQL/Aurora modernization that materially reduced costs and improved performance. At Edmentum he helped drive 99.9%+ availability for global users, introduced TDD practices at scale, and co-led billing automation that eliminated manual accounting steps. Comfortable mentoring distributed teams, he enforces clean architecture, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), and YAML-driven CI to accelerate delivery while keeping technical debt in check. Now at Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting US, he brings a rare blend of long-term product stewardship and hands-on systems design that consistently turns complex educational requirements into reliable, measurable outcomes. Notably, his career shows sustained growth within one company for 15 years—evidence of deep institutional knowledge and adaptability to evolving tech stacks.
14 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science; Engineering, Computer Science; Engineering at Baylor University
German, Russian