Summary
Charleston Thai is a senior engineering project and release management leader with 13 years driving CI/CD, build and release engineering at scale, currently coordinating Apple’s Productivity Apps and major system-wide builds across iOS, macOS, visionOS, watchOS and iCloud. He has deep hands-on experience building centralized CI/CD platforms—having onboarded 150+ apps at Apple—alongside earlier release control roles at SAP Ariba and Verint. Known for turning noisy daily-build failure data into pragmatic escalation and remediation strategies, he improves build quality and release cadence while aligning cross-functional teams from dev to QA and DevOps. Based in California, he blends technical depth in tools like Jenkins, Maven, GitHub/GitLab and security scanning with program-level release orchestration for consumer-facing products used by millions. As someone who studied both computer information sciences and economics, he brings quantitative rigor and systems thinking to delivery tradeoffs and risk management.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
Chinese