Charles Beaudoin
@charlesbeaudoin
Senior software engineer specializing in scalable, reliable distributed backend systems.
United StatesWhat I'm looking for
I am a Senior Software Engineer with over eight years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, focused on data consistency, concurrency control, and performance optimization. I have led architecture and scalability efforts for messaging and customer data platforms, improving real-time processing, reliability, and throughput across multi-region infrastructures.
I drive pragmatic engineering decisions, mentor engineers, and partner with product and operations to deliver resilient, high-performance backend services. My work includes implementing idempotent patterns, version-based concurrency control, deterministic merge logic, and containerized microservice modernizations that measurably reduced errors and improved latency and reliability.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Led backend design and scalability improvements for the Segment Customer Data Platform, improving identity resolution accuracy, eliminating data corruption under millions of daily events, and reducing real-time processing latency for audience activation.
Led technical direction for core Messaging & Customer Engagement services handling billions of API requests, improving delivery reliability and latency, defining event-driven architecture standards, and driving multi-region scalability and cost optimizations.
Software Engineer
Zipwhip
Nov 2018 - Jan 2022 (3 years 2 months)
Led development and scaling of Zipwhip Business Texting, processing millions of SMS daily with 99.99% delivery reliability by designing carrier integrations, resilient routing, and containerized microservices on AWS/EKS.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Washington State University
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
2011 - 2015
Completed a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with coursework in algorithms, systems, and software engineering.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
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Location
United StatesAuthorized to work in
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