Charles McQuain
Engineering Leader & Cloud Architect
6+ years building enterprise AI systems, leading engineering teams, and delivering measurable business impact.
Core Expertise
Engineering Leader & Cloud Architect
6+ years building enterprise AI systems, leading engineering teams, and delivering measurable business impact.
Core Expertise
I'm a platform engineering lead who genuinely loves both sides of the job: writing code and developing people. While you'll find me in PRs and architecture reviews, the real highlight of my work is mentoring my team and watching them grow.
Here's the thing: my greatest accomplishment in my career isn't a technical deliverable or outcome. It's seeing my team's growth. Whether it's helping a new engineer ship their first major feature or watching someone I've mentored step into a leadership role, that's what drives me.
Recently, I architected a multi-channel AI ecosystem that I'm really proud of: a website chatbot powered by Vertex AI and Gemini, a Reddit bot, and a retail virtual assistant with voice capabilities using Eleven Labs voice cloning. I love diving into cloud architecture and AI/ML technologies. I'm AWS and Google Cloud certified.
Driving technical excellence and measurable business outcomes through team leadership and strategic execution
Production experience across cloud platforms, AI/ML systems, and full-stack development
Production-scale cloud architecture and infrastructure management
Production AI systems with voice, vision, and language models
Scalable server-side applications and APIs
Modern web applications and user interfaces
University of West Georgia
Western Governors University
Amazon Web Services
Google Cloud