Charles Cooke
Sr. Director, Cloud And DevOps at Writer
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Cooke is a senior engineering leader with over 20 years of software, DevOps, and cloud experience who currently leads Cloud and DevOps at Writer from Halifax, Nova Scotia. He has a proven track record driving multi-cloud platform transformations and scaling infrastructure to support rapid revenue growth and enterprise adoption, including contributions that helped Coupa grow from $130M to $1B in revenue. Charles excels at bridging product, development, and operations to deliver secure, compliant systems (FedRAMP, HIPAA, PCI) while boosting developer productivity through automation, IaC, and self-service Kubernetes platforms. He has built and led globally distributed teams through startup-to-enterprise transitions, cutting deployment cycles from weeks to hours and achieving four-nines availability for mission-critical services. A former founder who started two tech companies and an electrical engineering co-op grad from Dalhousie, he blends entrepreneurial curiosity with deep systems and distributed-systems expertise. Notably, he pairs hands-on engineering across Ruby, Python, Java and Go with strategic M&A integrations to rationalize cloud architectures.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BEng Electrical Engineering (co-op), BEng Electrical Engineering (co-op) at Dalhousie University
Github Skills (21)
jmx6
java6
rightscale5
sensu4
api3
mutators3
handlers3
ruby2
stunnel1
docker1
infrastructure-management1
esxi1
libvirt1
cookbook1
kubernetes1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
coupa-ops/rails_admin
May 2015 - Jan 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 4 branches in 7 years 9 months
railsrails-enginerailsadminruby
coupacooke/boomi-ruby
Jun 2013 - May 2016
Contributions:25 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 11 months
apiruby-gemgemruby
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