Summary
Charles Hooperlee is a seasoned infrastructure and site reliability engineering leader with 16 years of experience building and scaling cloud platforms, most notably at Heroku and Stripe, and now leading as President & CEO of Top End Meat Co. and running HooperLee Farms in Oregon. He combines hands-on systems and security expertise—recognized by mentions in Microsoft’s and Google’s security acknowledgements—with a talent for growing distributed SRE teams and operational processes that measurably improve performance. Charles has driven major platform migrations, capacity planning for services handling billions of daily requests, and secure AWS GovCloud deployments in regulated environments. A former Air Force aircraft armament specialist, he brings disciplined operational rigor and a penchant for practical, auditable solutions. Outside engineering he pursues hands-on crafts—archery, gardening, and lock picking—that mirror his iterative, detail-oriented approach to systems and teams.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Aircraft Armament Systems, Aircraft Armament Systems at US Air Force - Sheppard AFB
B.S. Business Information Systems, B.S. Business Information Systems at Eastern Connecticut State University
Business Information Systems, Business Information Systems at Three Rivers Community College
English