Summary
Charlie Drews is a Senior Software Engineer in the New York City area with 11 years of experience building and operating Java backend systems and integrations for SaaS products. He currently focuses on Java backend development at Brigit and previously ran site reliability and sustaining engineering at Mark43, where he managed 24/7 incident response, authored RCAs, and was an inaugural “Above and Beyond” award winner. Charlie combines hands-on production debugging (Java, SQL, Elasticsearch) with deployment and observability expertise across Kubernetes, Argo CD, TeamCity, Splunk, and ELK. He has led technical teams and training, built numerous custom integrations and internal systems, and directed data and analytics work at mission-driven Pursuit, tying technical solutions to operational impact. Uncommonly, his background spans consulting-grade quantitative analysis and education—an NYU MS in Computer Science and prior roles teaching and designing curricula—bringing both rigor and strong communication to complex engineering problems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Android Development Immersive, Certificate, Android Development Immersive at General Assembly
Master's Degree, Computer Science, Master's Degree, Computer Science at New York University
Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics, Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics at Northwestern University