Charles Taft

Charles Taft has a strong background in software engineering and architecture. Charles currently works as a Lead Software Engineer at Publix Super Markets since July 2023. Prior to that, they served as a Principal Architect at RDA from April 2022 to July 2023. Charles also worked at EBSCO Information Services in various roles including System Architect from September 2021 to April 2022 and Senior Software Engineer from February 2019 to September 2021. Before that, they worked at SmashFly Technologies as a Team Lead from October 2018 to February 2019 and as a Software Engineer from February 2018 to October 2018. Charles also gained experience at Vistaprint, where they worked as a Lead Operational Support Engineer from June 2017 to February 2018 and as an Operational Support Engineer II from November 2015 to February 2018. Charles also held roles as a Senior Software Engineer and Application Support Engineer at Vistaprint from May 2015 to February 2018. In addition, Charles worked as an Associate Software Engineer at MorphoTrust USA from September 2014 to May 2015, and as a Software Development Intern at EBSCO Information Services from May 2014 to August 2014.

Charles Taft earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Salem State University, which they attended from 2012 to 2014. In addition, they obtained several certifications including CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator from The Linux Foundation in August 2023, Sitecore 10 .NET Developer Certification Exam from Sitecore in 2022, Amazon Web Services Developer - Associate from Amazon in March 2019, Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate, and Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert from Microsoft in May 2022. Charles also has completed several online courses including "Anatomy of Backbone.js" and "JavaScript Road Trip Part 3" from Code School, though the completion dates are not provided.