Charles Harris
Software Engineer at Graphcore
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Harris is a software engineer with 7 years' experience, currently working at Graphcore and contributing as an ML engineer at Hugging Face on the side. He combines strong back-end systems skills with applied ML infrastructure experience, having improved vLLM's API server security (adding SSL), benchmark integrations for OpenAI-compatible serving, and migrated observability metrics to prometheus_client. A Bristol-based dual-degree engineer with a Distinction MSc in Computer Science and a first-class BEng in Aerospace-aligned engineering, he brings rigorous academic grounding to production-grade inference tooling. His internships at CFMS and hands-on work on high-throughput LLM serving show a practical focus on scalable, secure model deployment.
7 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Distinction, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Distinction at University of Bristol
Github Skills (7)
api10
back-end-development10
python10
apidoc10
fastapi9
openai-api9
prometheus9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
vllm-project/vllm
Dec 2023 - Apr 2025
A high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:179 reviews, 243 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Charles made several contributions focused on enhancing the API server functionality of the vLLM project. This included adding SSL support to the API servers for secure communication and modifying the benchmark serving script to support the OpenAI API server. Furthermore, the user refactored and updated the benchmark serving script, enhancing the integration with the server's HTTPS protocol. The user also ported metrics from `aioprometheus` to `prometheus_client`.
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hmellor/auction-website
Sep 2019 - Feb 2022
An open-source auction hosting system
Contributions:16 releases, 1 review, 57 commits in 2 years 4 months
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