# Charles Thao

> Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat AI

Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/charlesthao

Red Hat Senior Software Engineer 

Technical skills: 
•      Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML/CSS, Swift
•	Cloud computing: OpenStack, OpenShift/ Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud
•	Web development: ReactJS, Express, Angular, NodeJS, Django
•	Mobile development: Cross-platform (Flutter/Dart), Android Studio
•	Database: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL

I can be reached at CharlesThao96@gmail.com

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Red Hat
Jan 2022 – Present | Boston, Massachusetts, United States

### Software Engineer @ Red Hat
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Greater Boston Area

### Software Engineering Intern @ Red Hat
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Boston Area
•	Back end development in integrating and containerizing Dataverse to run on OpenShift for data storage and analytics
•	Improved Dataverse’s performance in containers 
•	Reduced its startup time in OpenShift containers by 50% by eliminating and fixing bad practices in Docker image writing
•	Redesigned its Perl installation process in order to fit distributed use and horizontal scaling
•	Enabled Solr scaling by implementing master-slave index replication

### Software Engineering Intern @ Mass Open Cloud
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Greater Boston Area
•	Lead intern for projects in High Performance Computing (HPC) and Geographical Analytics
•	Monitor Slurm watcher to utilize virtual nodes on HPC cluster
•	Deployed and monitored GeoMesa on MOC OpenStack cloud to enable spatial-temporal analytics
•	Harvested tweets and perform analytics using Apache Spark
•	Designed an application for mapping service indexing with Django and WMS
•	Maintained and improved the Billion Objects Platform, along with developing JavaScript front-end and Apache Kafka streaming
•	Future project: GPU integration for cloud computing

### Software Engineering Intern @ Foody Corp
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
•	Developed two views on Foody Android application to comply with new design guidelines
•	Connected new UI components to the back-end API as well as NoSQL database
•	Improved search engine by supporting text processing to allow Vietnamese Unicode scripts without diacritics 
•	Improved and designed a prototype for graphical user interface of the Foody Android App using Android Studio


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Magna Cum Laude, Computer Engineering
Boston University

### Master of Science - MS in Computer Engineering
Boston University


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22