Charlie Roffe

Engineering Director · Cloud & AI

Madrid, Spain · LinkedIn · GitHub

Engineering Director with 20+ years building and leading the teams that deliver enterprise-scale cloud and AI platforms. Founded and grew four engineering disciplines from the ground up — Cloud Automation, Software Engineering, SRE, and Platform Ops — and directed automation engineering at a Fortune 5, delivering $50M in-year savings. Still deeply hands-on: designs zero-trust multi-cloud platforms across Azure, AWS, and GCP, ships production AI systems from RAG pipelines to enterprise GenAI guardrails, and writes production code alongside his teams. Triple cloud certified.

Selected Impact

  • 20+ — Years multi-cloud architecture
  • $50M — In-year savings (DevSecOps automation)
  • 6,000+ — VMs migrated per year to Azure/GCP/AWS
  • $500B — Assets managed on a master data platform

Professional Experience

Qumodity — Engineering Director / Global Cloud Architect

May 2021 – Present · Remote (Puerto Rico)

  • Architected enterprise cloud infrastructure from greenfield: a zero-trust multi-cloud platform spanning Azure and AWS as independent hub-and-spoke topologies bridged via Azure VWAN and site-to-site VPNs, with Azure landing zones, policy governance, and RBAC.
  • Architected and built production RAG pipelines with LangChain and LangGraph — retrieval strategies, vector stores, LLM routing, and enterprise AI guardrails for GenAI adoption (GitHub Copilot, Claude, Azure OpenAI, Gemini, Cursor).
  • Built and led four engineering disciplines from the ground up — Cloud Automation, Software Engineering, SRE, and Platform Ops (up to 10 people each) — to autonomous operation.
  • Designed and owns the company's M&A technical integration framework — a reusable playbook onboarding ~5 acquired companies per year.

CVS Health — Cloud Architect / Director — Cloud & Automation Engineering

Jan 2017 – Apr 2021 · United States

  • Rebuilt the Cloud Infrastructure Center of Excellence from the ground up, enabling migration of ~6,000 VMs/year to Azure, GCP, and AWS; lead architect for reference architectures, ADRs, and Azure landing zones, with FinOps cost optimization.
  • Authored all Terraform IaC defining the hub-and-spoke multi-cloud network across Azure, GCP, and AWS — Zero Trust, IAM/RBAC, high availability, and disaster recovery; HIPAA and SOC 2 compliant.
  • As Director of Automation Engineering, delivered $50M in-year savings; standardized 3,500+ automated builds/year and grew the Chef/Terraform fleet from zero to 6,000 VMs in 8 months, scaling to 10,000+.

VMware — Global Technical Alliance Senior Manager

Oct 2015 – Dec 2016 · United States

  • Aligned CSC and VMware around a joint SDDC, End-User Computing, and Mobility portfolio, exceeding technical enablement growth targets quarter over quarter.
  • Overhauled the global technical enablement program with structured incentives and managed joint investments, systematically expanding the pipeline of enabled technical staff.

Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) — Senior Principal Solution Architect

Jan 2014 – Sep 2015 · United States

  • Led a 4,500-workload migration to Microsoft Azure with a PowerShell automation layer; designed AWS GovCloud infrastructure with a reusable clone-to-migrate strategy.
  • Chief Architect for a 25-person Enterprise Private Cloud Appliance pilot — delivered 200 blades and 3 PB of storage, reducing VM provisioning from 6 months to hours.

ServiceMesh — Lead Architect Supervisor

Apr 2013 – Jan 2014 · United States

  • Led design and implementation of the ServiceMesh Agility platform at Fortune 100 clients, with custom integrations across Puppet, Chef, VMware NSX, InfoBlox, and F5.
  • Reduced product installation and integration from a full week to hours via Python/Bash automated deployment pipelines.

MetLife Investments — Lead Software Architect

Jun 2010 – Apr 2013 · United States

  • Architected a hub-and-spoke master data warehouse (Eagle PACE/STAR) managing ~$500B in general account assets; led a team of 15 and cut a critical nightly batch from 6 hours to 22 minutes.
  • Standardized Informatica as the cross-team ETL tool and redesigned data systems on a follow-the-sun architecture for global high availability.