Charles Butler
Staff Engineer at Chainguard
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolCharles Butler is a Staff Engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native, human-centered platforms that prioritize reducing operational cognitive load. A self-taught polyglot and early Kubernetes practitioner (since before 1.0), he combines systems thinking with pragmatic trade-off analysis to deliver secure, containerized infrastructure and large-scale automation. He has driven platform and CI/CD work across edge, cloud, and enterprise environments at Vapor.io, DigitalOcean, and now Chainguard, with deep experience in Python, Go, Terraform, and Kubernetes operator patterns. Charles repeatedly focuses on the friction points between development, operations, and security—automating the “un-automatable” and creating tooling and workflows that serve real humans. Outside of work he runs an audio lab and reads fiction, reflecting a creative streak that shows up in inventive engineering approaches.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
English / Composition, English / Composition at Ozarks Technical Community CollegeAssociate of Applied Science, Software Application Development / Programming, Associate of Applied Science, Software Application Development / Programming at ITT Technical Institute - Green Tree
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
scheduling10
k8s10
mesos10
sarif10
varnish10
envelope10
discourse10
kubernetes-monitoring10
build-automation10
continuous-delivery10
kubernetes10
continuous-integration10
charm10
tla10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
lazypower/dockerfiles
Jan 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:118 commits, 83 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 4 months
chuckbutler/Kubrick-Documentation-Scaffolding
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:2 releases, 15 commits, 17 pushes in 1 day
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