Charles Thao
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolCharles Thao is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat with nine years of experience designing and deploying cloud-native systems and full-stack applications. He specializes in containerization and orchestration (OpenShift/Kubernetes, OpenStack) and has driven performance and scaling improvements for the Dataverse research data platform, including Docker/Init-container optimizations and Solr master-slave replication. Comfortable across Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, and mobile frameworks, he blends backend systems architecture with frontend and mobile delivery to ship production-ready services. His background includes HPC and spatial-temporal analytics on OpenStack and hands-on DevOps work, reflecting a rare mix of application-level coding and system-level deployment expertise. Based in Boston, he holds BS and MS degrees in Computer Engineering from Boston University and consistently focuses on pragmatic optimizations that cut startup times and improve scalability.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Magna Cum Laude, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Magna Cum Laude, Computer Engineering at Boston University
English, Chinese, Vietnamese, Chinese
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Github Skills (14)
kubernetes10
docker10
openshift10
dockers10
kubernetes-pods10
cicd9
solr9
bash9
system-administration8
json6
xcode6
ios6
swift6
postgresql6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
IQSS/dataverse
Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
Open source research data repository software
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & System Architect
DevOps Engineer & System ArchitectContributions:32 commits, 9 PRs, 49 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Charles primarily focused on containerization and deployment aspects of the Dataverse project. They worked extensively on Dockerfiles and init-containers, configuring the application for container-based environments. They also addressed build processes and deployment automation via OpenShift, including persistent volume configuration and Solr master/slave setup. Their work shows system-level design and configuration for the deployment of Dataverse on Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms.
research-datadata-repositoryopendataresearch-data-repositorycreative-commons
thaorell/ovirt-web-ui
May 2019 - Sep 2019
Modern lightweight UI for standard (non-admin) oVirt users
Contributions:87 pushes, 22 branches in 3 months
reactadminovirt
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