Charlie Getzen
Staff Infrastructure Engineer at MeshyAI
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCharlie Getzen is a Staff Infrastructure Engineer with a decade of experience building reliable, multi-region cloud systems and developer-facing infrastructure. Based in Austin, he has led reliability efforts from hands-on SRE work to head-of-reliability roles, driving zero-downtime Vault upgrades, multi-region CockroachDB migrations, and Kubernetes multi-cluster architectures. An active open-source contributor, Charlie improved helm's Kubernetes client internals and has upstream contributions to golang and Envoy that reduced deployment latency and fixed subtle concurrency and HTTP client race conditions. He excels at bridging engineering, QA, and customer teams to make tools and processes more observable and resilient, and he often surfaces metrics that change executive decision-making. Known for pragmatic automation, he moved large fleets off legacy platforms (Heroku, CLB) to Kubernetes and ALB/Global Accelerator with measurable latency wins. Colleagues describe him as a “tired” but relentless problem-solver who turns messy operational constraints into repeatable, testable systems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering at UC Santa Barbara
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
kubernetes10
go10
helm10
kubernetes-apiserver10
concurrency10
kubernetes-pods10
git6
data-structures6
activerecord6
docker6
amazon-ec26
gemfile-lock6
inheritance6
networking6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
helm/helm
Apr 2019 - Oct 2019
The Kubernetes Package Manager
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 8 PRs, 18 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Charlie focused on improving the `helm` project's internal Kubernetes client code. Their commits added checks for empty lists, refactored the `batchPerform` function to process resources by kind and improved concurrency by using goroutines and WaitGroups. These changes likely improve the efficiency and reliability of Helm's interaction with the Kubernetes API, especially when deploying and managing resources.
chartscharthelmpackage-managerkubernetes
cgetzen/dotfiles
Dec 2018 - Mar 2023
Contributions:56 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 4 months
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