Hey, I'm Charlie

Software Engineer with a passion for building. Currently working as a Founding Engineer at Autumn.

Experience

Founding Engineer at Autumn (YC S25)

Joining Autumn as the first founding engineer. Autumn is a platform making credits, limits and usage based billing easy.

Product Engineer at LightWork AI

At LightWork AI, I developed a full-stack web application supported by an array of microservices. These included multi-agent systems utilised by property managers to automate common conversational workflows, including maintenance tasks and compliance renewals. I led the backend team, facilitating team meetings and sprint planning.

Graduate Software Engineer at Spark Finance

At Spark Finance, I developed multiple C# .NET microservices. These included services with event-driven architecture, including stream consumers and producers. Other services I developed orchestrated 30+ services to process data relating to specific companies and directors.

Software Engineer Intern at Cisco (Ensoft)

Created Python monitoring tool tracking team performance and leadership metrics. This tool met Cisco's internal standards and remains in active use.

Education

University of Leeds Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science & Mathematics

Graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science & Mathematics from the University of Leeds.

Roundwood Park School A-Levels

A-Levels in Computer Science, Mathematics, Further Mathematics, and Economics (all A* grades).

Misc

1st place at the {Tech: Europe}, OpenAI & VEED London Hackathon.

Multiple open source contributions including better-auth & convex.

500+ GitHub stars across my open source projects.