Summary
Charles Francoise is a Staff Software Engineer based in Paris with 13 years of experience building and leading engineering efforts across startups and scale-ups. He has progressed from early R&D and audio-software roles to macOS leadership positions and co-founding product-focused ventures, demonstrating versatility across platforms and domains. Currently at CircleCI, he brings senior-level architecture and delivery experience honed at PayFit, Dashlane, Lima Technology and multiple entrepreneurial projects. Comfortable both as an individual contributor and a technical founder, he combines hands-on coding with mentorship and cross-functional collaboration. His background in audio and embedded tooling plus repeated lead roles hint at a pragmatic engineer who thrives on shipping polished client-facing systems and developer tools.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
French, English, German