Charles Cahoon
Platform Engineer
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Cahoon is a human-centric platform engineer with 10 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native systems and teams from early-stage startups to enterprise products. Based in Boulder, he blends hands-on architecture and DevOps—completing Kubernetes migrations, observability (Datadog), and resilient data pipelines (Prefect)—with a leadership style focused on trust, mentorship, and empowering engineers. As CTO and Chief Architect at Smarter Sorting he tripled the engineering team, introduced mentorship programs and lightweight product-process standards that reduced project misalignment. His background includes leading security-focused integrations at Symantec and building microservice platforms at AirMap and HackEDU, giving him breadth across Go, TypeScript, Python, and PostgreSQL/PostGIS ecosystems. Not dogmatic about tools, he prioritizes understanding systems before prescribing fixes and favors pragmatic choices that accelerate developer productivity. Outside of technical work he brings a pragmatic curiosity—able to switch between deep technical problem solving and difficult people conversations to get teams unstuck.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at The College of William and Mary
Github Skills (21)
nodejs9
server-side9
nest9
microservices8
scalable8
js-framework8
nestjs8
typescript8
javascript8
nodejs-framework7
aws-services7
progressive7
javascript-framework7
amazon6
cnode6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cmcahoon/kotlin-bootstrap
Oct 2018 - Mar 2022
Contributions:13 commits, 7 pushes, 2 tags in 3 years 6 months
cmcahoon/dramatic
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
Actors for Go.
Contributions:32 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 2 months
golangactorsbadukgo
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