Charles Valentine is the VP of Technology Services at Indeed, the #1 global job search engine. Indeed currently operates in more than 60 countries and 28 languages, serving over 180 million monthly job seekers, from multiple data centers located around the globe, maintaining better than 99.999% availability and sub-second response times. Charles is responsible for Indeed's infrastructure operations and engineering, security, business intelligence, IT application development, and IT helpdesk. During his tenure, Charles has helped build and grow a global team of technology experts. Prior to Indeed, Charles was VP of Technology Services at XO Group, and was responsible for the technology and systems that ran theknot.com, thenest.com, and thebump.com, prior to XO Group Charles was the head of engineering and operations for texas.gov. Charles holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Texas Tech University. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his family.