Summary
Charles Mims is a DevOps Engineering Manager in the Austin area with 11 years of experience building and operating resilient cloud infrastructure and observability platforms. He progressed from network and NOC roles into senior DevOps positions where he managed Elasticsearch and Cassandra clusters, authored Prometheus exporters and Golang integrations, and automated CI/CD and AWS deployments. At SailPoint he leads DevOps engineering efforts, bringing hands-on expertise in monitoring, logging, and incident response combined with pragmatic process improvement. His background in algorithmic trading and a BA in Philosophy give him a data-driven yet thoughtful approach to risk, automation, and team coaching. Not obvious from titles: he’s frequently the first responder for alerts and has deep operational experience designing the alerting and escalation systems that keep services reliable.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Philosophy at The University of Texas at Austin
Spanish