Chuck Thier
Principal Software Engineer at H-E-B
Boerne, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolChuck Thier is a Principal Software Engineer with 16 years building large-scale distributed systems in Go and Python, currently leading H-E-B’s digital transformation to modernize retail store infrastructure. He brings deep cloud storage expertise from a decade at Rackspace, where he helped design Cloud Files and Cloud Block Storage and was a founder of OpenStack Swift, and later worked on a Go-based rewrite of Swift. Comfortable both architecting and shipping, he balances hands-on coding with team leadership and cross-functional delivery. His open-source contributions include practical developer documentation and setup work for the widely used OpenStack Swift project, reflecting a focus on making complex systems easier to run. Based in Boerne, Texas, he combines enterprise-grade reliability with a penchant for pragmatic, operational improvements.
16 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
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Github Skills (12)
documentation10
list-comprehension9
rsync9
xfs8
bash7
build-process6
nginx6
full-text-search6
mod-wsgi6
apache6
python6
devops4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/swift
Jul 2010 - May 2014
OpenStack Storage (Swift). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:141 commits in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Chuck primarily contributed to the documentation and setup instructions for the Swift All in One (SAIO) environment. The commits show modifications to the development documentation (development_saio.rst), including updates to the installation and setup instructions for the SAIO, and updates to bzr branching and setup.py usage. They also show changes to the rsync configuration.
openstackswift
troubling/hansible
Nov 2017 - Aug 2018
Ansible roles and playbooks for Hummingbird
Contributions:4 releases, 71 PRs, 30 pushes in 9 months
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