Charlie Pitkin
Senior Cloud Infrastructure Architect at AWS Canada
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolCharlie Pitkin is a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Architect with 11 years of experience designing and automating cloud-native systems, currently at AWS Canada. He has led large-scale migrations and cost-optimizations—such as a 15K-client migration and significant reductions in monitoring expenses—while driving Kubernetes, Docker, Pulumi, Puppet, and NodeJS-based automation. Charlie combines hands-on implementation with client-facing architecture, earning strong trust through clear explanations of complex technical trade-offs. He routinely leads cross-functional teams to standardize infrastructure and accelerate delivery, delivering measurable outcomes like 3x faster deployments and major EKS upgrades. A lifelong learner who digs deep into services and issues, he pairs technical curiosity with practical operational experience. Outside work he’s an avid traveler and gamer, bringing a broad perspective to problem-solving and team collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Management Information Systems, Bachelors Management Information Systems at University of Nebraska at Kearney
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Github Skills (54)
content-management-system10
cms10
node-cli10
rails10
ruby10
lambda10
ruby-on-rails10
nodejs-cli9
faas9
puppet9
docker9
functions-as-a-service9
openfaas9
nodejs9
jenkins-pipeline9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
wearefine/slack-archive-bot
Jul 2017 - Oct 2019
A Node cli to archive Slack channels that meet certain criteria.
Contributions:7 releases, 46 commits, 10 PRs in 2 years 3 months
node-clislackclinodejsarchive
wearefine/rails-jenkins-shared-libraries
Aug 2017 - Jan 2020
Test and deploy your Rails application with Jenkins piplines
Contributions:6 releases, 37 commits, 5 PRs in 2 years 5 months
jenkinsrailsjenkins-pipelinepipeline-jobrails-tests
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