Charlie Ward
Senior DevOps Cloud Platform Engineer
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolCharlie Ward is a Senior DevOps Cloud Platform Engineer with 10 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure at Mintel, progressing from software developer to system administrator and now SRE/Platform lead. He designs and maintains developer-focused platforms using Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, Terraform, ArgoCD and Prometheus, with a strong emphasis on reliability and application-centric infrastructure. Comfortable bridging legacy systems and modern cloud tooling, Charlie still steps into system administration when needed, giving him practical depth across the stack. He has a track record of improving developer experience and shipping repeatable infrastructure patterns for large-scale teams. Outside day-to-day engineering, he has experience mentoring at scale—having supported MOOCs with tens of thousands of learners—which reflects his ability to communicate complex technical topics to diverse audiences.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at The University of Reading
Github Skills (43)
vagrantfile9
amazon9
hsm9
k8s-operator8
operator8
vault8
google-cloud8
kubernetes-secrets8
knife8
security8
injection8
go-client8
hashicorp-vault7
harness7
golang7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
chrlwrd/thought-distancing
Apr 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:1 release, 91 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 8 months
chrlwrd/cward.me
Dec 2019 - Mar 2022
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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