Charlie Jones

Examiner
DISC Type : cs

Principal Engineer at Simpli.fi

St Paul, Minnesota, United States

Overview

Charlie Jones is a Principal Engineer at Simpli. fi with deep expertise in data engineering, cloud infrastructure, and cost optimization. He has led significant projects, including migrating a 1PB Hadoop cluster with 100% uptime and moving over 900 servers to Google Cloud, saving over $70k monthly. Colleagues describe him as intelligent, personable, and a meticulous problem-solver.

He developed an open-source tool called Anemometer to emit SQL query results as Datadog metrics and presented it at the DataDog DASH conference.

Personality Overview

Late Adopter

Tough To Convince

Unexpressive

They do not like taking risks at all and go for proven options in the end.  They are quite aware of their needs and limitations, so they are unlikely to over-promise. They are heavily focused on quality and prefer doing things the right way, even if it takes time.

Topics They Care About

Large-Scale Data Systems
Designed and built a 300TB data warehouse, managed a 1PB Hadoop cluster, and implemented Spark streaming processes for millions of messages.
Cloud Migration
Spearheaded the migration of over 900 servers from IBM to Google Cloud and has extensive experience with tools like Terraform, Packer, and Chef.
Infrastructure Cost Savings
Demonstrated a strong business focus by consolidating workloads and retiring servers to reduce infrastructure costs by more than $70, 000 per month.

Media Appearances

Charlie has no verified media appearances

Work History

7-2025
Principal Engineer at Simpli.fi
4-2021 - 7-2025
Staff Data Engineer at Simpli.fi
10-2020 - 4-2021
Senior Data Engineer at Bestow Life Insurance
1-2019 - 10-2020
Staff Data Engineer at Simpli.fi
3-2015 - 1-2019
Senior Data Engineer at Simpli.fi

Education

Charlie has no verified education history

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Insights For Selling To Charlie

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Be firm in your communication and stay in control
  • First of all, focus on building their confidence by sharing examples, case studies etc.
  • Ask them which other stakeholders would be important for this purchase decision

DONT's

  • Don't use phrases like 'do not worry', 'i promise' etc.
  • Don't be very accepting if that is your natural style, stay firm
  • Don't rely on relationship building even if they act pleasantly

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Charlie is

  • Low-risk, adoption by others are very important to them, followed by confidence in ROI.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Charlie

  • They are unlikely to say no, it's better to stop yourself once you have exhausted all the options.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Charlie move?

  • They do not like to rush and therefore can be quite slow in their decision-making.
  • Can Charlie take some risk or not?

  • They have little risk-appetite and prefer to take measured decisions.

You And Charlie

Personality Compatibility


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