Charles Barrette

I’m a senior backend developer with 9+ years of experience building production systems, with a specialization in Node.js. I’m comfortable taking a problem from idea to working software with minimal hand-holding, especially when the path to a solution isn’t obvious.

At Autodesk (2017–2024), I developed the microservices orchestration layer for High Frequency Reactive Systems (HFRS), building a Node.js framework that lets teams define computation graphs and register microservices to process collaborative real-time data. I implemented the logic to dynamically spin services up and down based on data availability across the graph, helping the platform stay responsive under changing conditions.

I also built Customer Timelines, a proof-of-concept customer behavior tracking platform, and navigated an obscure internal data pipeline ingesting events across Autodesk product lines. To work around a limitation that made data inaccessible beyond 20,000 datapoints, I designed a two-level partitioning scheme by customer group and event volume, and I added observability improvements using Splunk to significantly reduce troubleshooting time.

Before that, as a Team Lead / Developer at Logient (2015–2017), I led a maintenance team to ensure continuous performance and timely issue resolution across multiple client environments. I created a Node.js internal website monitoring tool to detect outages before customers reported them, automated an undocumented 10-hour weekly data ingestion workflow down to 5 minutes, and reduced deployment time from 8+ hours to minutes using VM snapshots instead of a database dump-based rollback strategy.