# Charles Ruhland

> Software Engineer at Iterable

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/charlesruhland

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Iterable
Jan 2017 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Distributed Applications Engineer @ Mesosphere, Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
I worked on the Scala service in DC/OS that provides an HTTP API for package management (https://github.com/dcos/cosmos). It enables users of DC/OS to run distributed applications in their clusters with a single command.

### Platform Engineer @ Versal
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015
• Architected migration from a custom event sourcing architecture to a simple MariaDB cluster,
reducing technical debt.
• Led the backend team of six engineers. Made feature prioritization decisions, performed code
reviews, and provided mentorship to junior engineers.
• Designed and extended RESTful APIs in collaboration with frontend engineers.
• Made code maintenance less time consuming by ensuring that comprehensive tests were provided
with every code change.
• Improved code robustness with the Either and State types for error handling and DB access.

### Instructor @ Hackbright Academy
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
• Co-taught an intensive ten week course in webapp development for prospective software engineers.
• Covered Python, Flask, Jinja, SQLite, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, algorithms and data structures.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Klout
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
• Fixed several high-profile bugs in the Klout score MapReduce pipeline that incorrectly included
opted-out users in the score computations and public website.
• Added alerting that triggered when the scoring pipeline completed, so that adherence to SLAs
could be determined accurately.
• Developed ways of making the backend more efficient and realtime using the Storm framework
and Redis.
• Implemented a Storm bolt for persisting data continuously to HDFS.
• Wrote a custom Hadoop InputFormat to allow MapReduce jobs to consume data from Kafka
queues.

### MTS, Software Engineer @ Salesforce.com
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011
• Reduced costly errors in the application deployment process by adding and improving automation.
• Created a modular Ant script that enabled projects to generate build artifacts, making it easier
for new projects to use the existing deployment infrastructure.
• Designed and implemented a replacement for the aging webapp configuration system.
• Replaced Resin (an expensive, proprietary servlet container) with Jetty.

### MTS Intern @ VMware
Jan 2008 – Jan 2008

### Teaching Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2008 – Jan 2008

### Software Engineering Intern @ Google
Jan 2007 – Jan 2007

### Student Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2006 – Jan 2007


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/charles-ruhland-45841012

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Last updated: 2026-04-11