Charles Cozad
Principal Software Engineer at Pallium
Greater Sacramento United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Cozad is a Principal Software Engineer with nine years of focused experience leading teams to build scalable, secure cloud and AI-enabled platforms. He blends hands-on development in JavaScript, Python, Kotlin and cloud-native tooling with solution architecture for event-driven, serverless systems and large-scale data processing. Charles has guided AI adoption and privacy-preserving ML work—including Graph RAG and confidential compute—for regulated industries, pairing technical mentorship with customer-facing POCs and roadmap planning. His background spans startups to enterprise (Intel, Esurance, Aya Healthcare), giving him a track record of shipping mission-critical systems, from embedded drivers to high-availability claims and payments platforms. Notably, he moves fluidly between Dev/Ops (AWS, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes) and product strategy, often acting as the bridge between architects, engineers and business stakeholders. Based in Greater Sacramento, he combines deep technical breadth with a pragmatic leadership style that accelerates delivery and innovation.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
California State University, Sacramento
Github Skills (8)
command-line-interface6
azure6
cli6
azure-cli4
command-line4
previews3
react3
trello2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ccozad/ml-reference-designs
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
A set of reference implementations for various ML related tasks
Contributions:4 PRs, 232 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year
ccozad/ccozad.github.io
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:327 pushes, 1 branch in 28 days
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