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.
14 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 (100)
timeseries-database10
influxdb10
monitoring10
kustomize10
continuous-delivery10
external-secrets10
kubernetes-secrets10
helm10
external-secrets-operator10
jsonnet10
pipeline10
daemonset10
rust10
scalable10
evernote10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
charlesthomas/coinshot
Sep 2012 - Apr 2021
Contributions:33 commits, 13 pushes, 4 tags in 8 years 8 months
charlesthomas/homelab-argocd
Jan 2024 - Jun 2026
Contributions:5 reviews, 77 PRs, 114 pushes in 2 years 5 months
homelabhomelab-infrastructure-cicd
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