Summary
Charles Woerner is a Principal Engineer and empathetic technical leader with over a decade of experience designing and operating high-availability, data-driven systems across cloud and on-prem environments. He has led engineering and infrastructure teams at Chartbeat, Tubular Labs, and Quantcast, driving major cost-saving initiatives (including ARM/Graviton adoption) and building real-time attribution and analytics pipelines at petabyte scale. Comfortable both managing teams and shipping code, he blends software design, TDD/XP practices, and cloud-native tooling (Kubernetes, Spark, AWS, IaC) to deliver resilient platforms. Based in San Francisco, he’s known for pairing strong technical craft with people-first management and a track record of turning complex analytics requirements into reliable production services. An early career that even includes time as a professional golfer hints at a competitive, disciplined approach to problem solving and continuous learning.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MS Business, MS Business at University of Southern California
Saint Francis High School