Summary
Charlie Smith is a product and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling AI-driven, customer-facing systems across e-commerce and retail. As a senior leader at Amazon he launched multiple personalization and AI products that drove experimentation velocity and materially increased profits, and he led cross-functional teams through the full product lifecycle. Previously he led engineering initiatives at Sainsbury’s—where he shipped data-intensive personalization and experimental mobile products and ran a Golang education program—and now he’s founding Bolus to tackle diabetes and metabolic health through technology. He’s comfortable in ambiguity, blends first-principles thinking with hands-on delivery, and prefers owning long-term outcomes over incremental tweaks. An alumnus of Cambridge executive leadership training, he pairs strategic product instincts with deep technical credibility.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Executive Education High Impact Leadership, Executive Education High Impact Leadership at University of Cambridge