Charles Comstock
Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolCharles Comstock is a seasoned software engineer with 20 years of experience building scalable web applications, infrastructure, and automated pipelines from research labs to production systems. He has led performance and migration efforts—most notably scaling a Rails monolith to handle >1000 RPS while cutting DB calls by two-thirds and migrating infrastructure to AWS with autoscaling that reduced costs by 40%. Comfortable across the full stack, he pairs deep backend expertise (notable open-source contributions to Ruby core specs and tooling like Rubinius and CIDER) with operational know-how in CI/CD, release engineering, and monitoring. His background in bioinformatics and research programming informs a data-driven approach to automation, testing, and reproducible pipelines. Based in Missouri, he blends pragmatic engineering with a penchant for improving developer productivity and system reliability, shepherding “entropy into ephemeral moments, n bits at a time.”
20 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Maine School of Science and MathematicsB.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Washington University in St. LouisB.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Clarkson University
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Github Skills (20)
spec10
project-management10
clojure-cli10
cider10
testing10
emacs-lisp10
ruby10
clojure10
lang10
mspec10
emacs10
thread10
rubyspec10
test-automation10
mutex9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
rubinius/rubinius
Oct 2007 - Oct 2010
The Rubinius Language Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:339 commits, 1 comment in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Charles primarily contributed to the Rubinius Language Platform by implementing and testing core language features related to the Kernel module. This included adding specifications for Kernel methods such as `global_variables`, `local_variables`, and `sleep`. Further, they wrote tests that checked the functionality of core aspects of the Ruby language, such as block parameters and throw/catch. The user's contributions focused on enhancing the test suite and verifying the expected behavior of the Ruby language's core functionalities.
esoteric-languageprogramming-languagesvirtual-machinerubiniusprogramming-language
clojure-emacs/clj-refactor.el
Jan 2017 - Sep 2022
A CIDER extension that provides powerful commands for refactoring Clojure code.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 reviews, 24 commits, 11 PRs in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Charles primarily focused on refactoring and enhancing the clj-refactor.el Emacs Lisp code. Their contributions include extracting helper functions to improve code organization, adding new features like documentation macros, and improving the functionality related to namespace alias resolution. The user also added unit tests to verify the behavior of newly implemented functions.
refactoringsnreplcideremacsrefactoring
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