Charlie Sharpsteen
Principal Solutions Architect at Overlook InfraTech
Greater Fayetteville, AR Area United States
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RockstarCharlie Sharpsteen is a Principal Solutions Architect with 17 years of experience architecting and stabilizing infrastructure and automation for large-scale systems. Previously a long-tenured Principal Support Engineer at Puppet, he blends deep backend and DevOps expertise—especially around configuration management, vSphere automation, and cross-platform build compatibility—to turn brittle deployments into observable, resilient services. His open-source contributions span notable projects like Puppet, OSRM, and the vagrant-vsphere provider, where he improved performance, snapshot automation, and portability across OSes and compilers. Based in Greater Fayetteville, AR, he pairs hands-on engineering with operational instincts, often tackling subtle platform-edge issues (FreeBSD/Windows/OpenMP) that many teams miss.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (52)
openstreetmap10
vsphere10
puppeteer10
c-language10
puppet10
scripting10
clojure-cli10
testing10
configuration-management10
snap10
vmware10
snapshots10
ruby10
clojure10
automation10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
puppetlabs/puppet
Mar 2013 - Aug 2019
Server automation framework and application
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 83 commits, 16 PRs in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Charlie primarily contributed to the Puppet framework's core functionality. Their work involved clarifying documentation, adding tests for various scenarios within the `exec` type, and ensuring the validation of commands as type String. The user also addressed issues related to duplicate cron jobs and improved the handling of file mode audits and certificate expiration checks. Furthermore, they implemented improvements in the application's internal operations such as the use of PSON and added runtime environment logging.
frameworkautomationjavaautomation-frameworkserver-automation
puppetlabs/puppetserver
Apr 2017 - Jun 2020
Server automation framework and application
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 27 commits, 13 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Charlie focused on improving the Puppet Server's performance and stability. They implemented features like rate limiting for API requests using a request queue, including setting a `Retry-After` header. They also added metrics for monitoring, specifically tracking queue limit hits, and improved the PuppetDB integration test with enhanced assertions, retries, and time synchronization. The user further refined the code by removing redundancies and optimizing existing middleware functions.
frameworkautomationjavaautomation-frameworkserver-automation
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