Charles Gancarz
Site Reliability Engineer, Tech Lead at Government Digital Service
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolCharles Gancarz is a Site Reliability Engineer and Tech Lead with 12 years of experience delivering resilient systems for government, finance and public-sector programs. Based in London, he has led critical parts of the UK Government Digital Service's Digital Identity programme—shaping GOV.UK Verify and the One Login platform—bridging developer and ops concerns to deliver secure, auditable identity services. He combines full‑stack development experience (Java, Python, .NET, C#) with hands‑on SRE leadership, pragmatic automation and minimalist, sceptical engineering judgement. Comfortable working on high‑assurance, interoperable systems (eIDAS) and real‑time trading platforms earlier in his career, he focuses on reliability at scale and clear, maintainable designs.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Electronic and Information Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Electronic and Information Engineering at Imperial College LondonIB Diploma Mathematics Physics Psychology English French, IB Diploma Mathematics Physics Psychology English French at International BaccalaureateInternational Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma, International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma at IB World School No. 001309
English, Italian, French, Polish
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Github Skills (94)
origami10
verify10
proxy-server10
digital-identity10
frontend10
jwt9
authentication9
proxy9
swiftui9
auth9
idp9
lambdas9
finder9
matching9
publisher9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
alphagov/di-devplatform-upload-action
Jun 2022 - Jun 2023
Digital identity dev platform GitHub action to upload artifacts to deploy
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 2 PRs in 1 year
digital-identityplatform-devdevartifactsidentity
govuk-one-login/ipv-cri-templates
Oct 2023 - Feb 2024
Micro-templates for creating and developing Digital Identity Credential Issuers
Contributions:22 reviews, 24 PRs, 88 pushes in 4 months
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