Summary
Charles Szilagyi is a pragmatic Chief Technology Officer based in London with 20+ years of commercial software experience and 13 years in senior engineering roles, specializing in full-stack JavaScript, mobile apps, and scalable enterprise systems. He has led engineering teams and shipped production products across startups and large enterprises—from fintech and retail to media—bringing hands-on expertise in React, React Native, Node.js, AngularJS and DevOps tooling. Known for prioritizing maintainability and product quality, he blends agile practices with modular architecture to solve complex technical challenges creatively. As CTO of SettleIndex he continues to steer product and platform decisions while remaining an active developer who values pragmatic, incremental improvements (“making things better without making them worse”). His background also includes cross-platform desktop/mobile build pipelines and a legal education, a combination that sharpens his attention to requirements, compliance and delivery risk. Colleagues rely on him for clear technical leadership that balances long-term architecture with immediate product needs.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Law (JD) Faculty of Political and Legal Sciences, Doctor of Law (JD) Faculty of Political and Legal Sciences at invalid15092744
English, French, Hungarian