Callum Birks
Technical Support Engineer at Redis
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolCallum Birks is a technical support engineer at Redis with five years of software engineering experience and a strong focus on systems programming in C++. He previously shipped backend features as a software engineer at Couchbase and brings practical troubleshooting skills informed by hands-on development. A De Montfort University Computer Science graduate with first-class honours, he has balanced industry roles from Arm to customer-facing positions, which sharpens his ability to translate low-level behavior into actionable support. Known for blending deep technical curiosity with clear communication, he thrives on solving complex runtime and storage problems for production systems.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 1st, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 1st at De Montfort University
Github Skills (107)
database-engine10
nosql-database10
couchbase-lite10
embedded10
cpp10
nosql10
core-library10
swift10
delta-compression10
database10
data-format10
mobile10
macos10
ios10
couchbase10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
callumbirks/snake-pathfinder
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
A 'self-driving' snake game. Utilises the A* algorithm also found in my pathfinder-gui project.
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 2 years 2 months
callumbirks/fleece-rs
Nov 2023 - Feb 2025
Fleece binary encoding rewritten in Rust
Contributions:2 PRs, 60 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 3 months
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