Charlie Newark
Mechanical Engineering Consultant at Maersk
Lincoln, Nebraska Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCharlie Newark is a Mechanical Engineering Consultant and Principal Engineer at Maersk based in the Lincoln, Nebraska area with six years of cross-disciplinary experience bridging mechanical design, operations, and DevOps. He combines an engineering foundation from UCLA and an MBA with mechanical engineering from MIT to translate complex systems requirements into pragmatic, scalable solutions for large logistics environments. At Maersk he applies hands-on technical leadership to optimize equipment and processes while also contributing to cloud-native tooling—evidenced by Helm chart updates and tempo-related contributions in the widely used grafana/helm-charts repository. Charlie’s work reflects a blend of physical systems thinking and software-oriented automation, making upgrades and protocols more maintainable and opt-in to reduce risk during rollouts. He’s comfortable working across documentation, versioning, and release guidance to smooth cross-team deployments, an unusual but valuable mix for consultants in heavy-industry contexts. Colleagues rely on him to connect operational realities with developer workflows, turning complex upgrades into clear, auditable steps.
6 years of coding experience
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Mechanical Engineering, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (7)
kubernetes10
grafana10
helm10
kubernetes-pods10
charts10
yaml9
devops8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/helm-charts
Jan 2021 - Apr 2022
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:61 reviews, 110 commits, 53 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Charlie primarily focused on updating the Helm charts within the repository. Their contributions involved modifying and updating the `README.md.gotmpl` files to reflect changes in the tempo-distributed chart. They also added the initial version of the tempo-vulture chart, along with related documentation updates, and address version-related upgrade instructions. Their work involved making protocols opt-in and updating various versions of the Tempo and related chart components.
kubenetesgrafanahelm-charts
Whyeasy/helm-charts
Apr 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:149 releases, 269 commits, 266 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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