Charlie O'keefe
Temecula, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCharlie O'Keefe is a versatile software engineer with 17 years of experience who has moved fluidly from data visualization and web applications into DevSecOps, platform and release engineering. He spent five years at Electric Coin Co. supporting Zcash, where he built and hardened CI/CD, observability, and reproducible release pipelines for a high-profile cryptocurrency project. Comfortable across Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, Tekton, and scripting in Python/Ruby/shell, he focuses on improving developer experience and operational reliability. Charlie pairs deep engineering craftsmanship—evident in maintaining Gitian build environments and offline signing workflows—with a collaborative drive to both find and provide mentorship. He’s curious about emerging runtimes like Rust and WebAssembly, signaling a continuous-learning mindset that complements his practical, security-minded tooling work.
17 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at University of Colorado DenverBachelor of Science, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at Colorado School of Mines
Github Skills (12)
automation10
automations10
build-system10
testing10
cicd9
python8
qa-automation7
automation-testing7
test-automation7
blockchain5
rust5
cryptocurrency5
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
zcash/zcash
Mar 2018 - Jun 2022
Zcash - Internet Money
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer / Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer / Automation EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 50 commits, 57 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Charlie primarily contributed to the build and testing infrastructure of the Zcash repository. Their commits modified build scripts, added new testing stages, and addressed issues related to build dependencies. They also made modifications to test setups, enhancing the testing process. The focus was on automating and streamlining the build and test cycles.
moneyzcashinternet
charlieok/zcash
Mar 2018 - May 2023
Zcash - Internet Money
Contributions:7 PRs, 222 pushes, 85 branches in 5 years 2 months
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