Summary
Charles Patterson is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of cross-functional experience building and operating full-stack web applications, backend APIs, and DevOps tooling across startups and enterprise brands. He began in QA automation and progressively moved into DevOps, backend engineering, and technical leadership—most recently managing engineering teams at Under Armour and now at Horizon3.ai. His technical breadth spans Node.js/TypeScript, GraphQL, React, Ruby on Rails, .NET, PHP/Laravel, and AWS, and he has hands-on experience designing CI/CD pipelines, Dockerized deployments, and performance-tuned ETL systems. Known for digging into complex legacy systems and reducing operational friction, he combines pragmatic engineering with mentorship and systems-level troubleshooting. Based in Bellevue after a formative move from Purdue to Austin, he brings a curious, resourceful approach rooted in a lifelong fascination with computers and electronics.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Purdue University