Charles Lirsac
Founding Engineer at [building]
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Lirsac is a pragmatic founding engineer and technical lead with 12 years of experience building scalable web applications, APIs and data pipelines for high‑volume product and customer platforms. Having led engineering work at Stylight and search & personalisation at Marks & Spencer, he blends strong theoretical computer science training from Imperial and Centrale Lyon with hands‑on delivery in international, cross‑functional teams. He excels at translating complex product and data needs into reliable, customer‑facing systems that serve millions of products and hundreds of customers. Now founding a new venture in London, he pairs startup grit with enterprise-grade engineering practices and a penchant for practical, measurable outcomes. An uncommon detail: his background spans both research engineering and communications/project management, which helps him bridge technical design, stakeholder alignment and product strategy.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computing - Software Engineering, Master’s Degree, Computing - Software Engineering at Imperial College LondonClasses préparatoires scientifiques (PCSI, PSI*), Applied Sciences, Classes préparatoires scientifiques (PCSI, PSI*), Applied Sciences at Lycée du ParcMaster of Science and Engineering / National Engineer's Degree, Engineering, Management, Master of Science and Engineering / National Engineer's Degree, Engineering, Management at Centrale Lyon
French, English, Spanish
Github Skills (78)
web-application10
image-processing10
marker10
mesh10
surface10
menpo10
computer-vision9
graphql9
mutation9
queue8
localization8
aioredis8
internationalization8
python8
pdf8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lirsacc/py-gql
Mar 2018 - Apr 2021
GraphQL primitives for Python
Contributions:2 releases, 611 commits, 11 PRs in 3 years 1 month
pythonmutationpython3graphqlprimitives
lirsacc/react-conveyor
Aug 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:54 commits, 36 pushes, 4 branches in 11 months
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