Charles Thomas
Senior Platform Engineer
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Thomas is a Senior Platform Engineer with over 13 years of hands-on experience across support, QA, testing, release engineering, and platform operations, now driving platform work at InfluxData. Self-taught across PHP, Perl, Java, Python, Go, and Kubernetes, he focuses on reducing operational toil through tooling and automation—once cutting deployment time by 75%. His career spans startups and enterprise teams (Mezmo, DataStax) where he bridged development, testing, and systems engineering to ship reliable production services. Based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, he combines a systems-administration background with pragmatic software engineering to streamline CI/CD and platform reliability.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Network and System Administration, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Network and System Administration at Michigan Technological University
Github Skills (130)
argocd10
k8s10
kustomize10
continuous-delivery10
helm10
jsonnet10
pipeline10
continuous-deployment10
kubernetes10
git-addons10
cd10
ksonnet10
cicd10
argo10
gitops10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
charlesthomas/coinshot
Sep 2012 - Apr 2021
Contributions:33 commits, 13 pushes, 4 tags in 8 years 8 months
charlesthomas/templatron
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:13 reviews, 100 PRs, 135 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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