Summary
Charles Gomes is an IT leader with 14 years of experience building scalable, highly automated infrastructure and running operations across hybrid cloud, data center and office environments from New York. As Head of IT at Clearpool Group he designed and migrated data centers, implemented CI-driven orchestration and built repeatable VMware/KVM/OpenStack solutions that bridge IT and development. He combines deep hands-on skills in Linux, RHEL, Windows, VMware, Arista/Cisco networking and storage with a pragmatic DevOps mindset that prioritizes reliability and automation. Earlier roles at KCG and Benchmark sharpened his expertise in high-availability clusters, performance tuning, distributed databases and infrastructure-as-code. Colleagues describe him as upbeat and solution-oriented, able to plan strategically while diving into low-level scripting and tooling to extract extra performance. He’s notable for treating CI as a core IT discipline—bringing software development practices into traditional operations to scale complex environments.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
English, Portuguese, Spanish