Charles Thayer
AI Consulting Startup Stealth at Self
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Thayer is an infrastructure-focused engineer and startup CTO with 11+ years building and scaling petabyte-scale systems and services that handle millions of requests per second. He’s led platform and networking efforts at Roblox and earlier built core distributed storage, crawler, and cluster-management systems at Facebook and Yahoo, migrating monoliths to microservices and Windows to Linux at internet scale. Now advising and founding in stealth from San Francisco, he helps AI startups productionize RAG, vector DBs, embeddings, provenance, and the infra around Envoy/Istio and Kubernetes. Comfortable from DevOps to deep systems refactors, he combines hands-on C++, Go, and Python engineering with strategic technical leadership. An under-the-radar detail: much of his impactful code history remains in private repos, reflecting a career spent shipping proprietary, large-scale infrastructure rather than public OSS.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science Electrical Engineering, Bachelors of Science Electrical Engineering at Columbia University
English
Stackoverflow
1,848reputation
665kreached
10answers
9questions
docker
top-5%
kubernetes
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
python10
http10
proxy10
accelerator10
infrastructure10
pip10
rest-api10
cloud-native10
client-library10
python-development10
django10
validation10
revert10
lookup-table10
api10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cgthayer/xfb2xfb
Apr 2020 - Mar 2024
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Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
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cgthayer/thayer.b2si.com
Sep 2021 - Feb 2025
Contributions:46 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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