Charly Poly
Product Marketing Lead at Browserbase
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolCharly Poly is a product marketing leader and former Algolia tech lead with 12 years of software engineering experience, now focusing on developer marketing and product growth across startups and YC-backed ventures. He blends hands-on full‑stack engineering—contributing to high-profile open-source projects like Next.js and GraphQL tooling—with go-to-market craft, having been the first marketer at Inngest and a YC founder at Defer. At Algolia he rewrote critical systems and shaped hiring and engineering processes; in open source he’s shipped schema transforms, search UI integrations and documentation improvements that improve developer DX. Comfortable toggling between technical depth and marketing strategy, he builds content, tooling and examples that accelerate adoption among dev communities. Based in Paris, he pairs startup leadership and fundraising experience with a pragmatic engineering background in TypeScript, GraphQL and developer tooling. Unexpectedly, his technical writing has also driven visibility—one article ranked among the top‑liked TypeScript pieces in 2021—underscoring his ability to translate complex engineering topics into engaging content.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bac S Spécialité SVT option Mathématiques, Bac S Spécialité SVT option Mathématiques, Bac S Spécialité SVT option Mathématiques, Bac S Spécialité SVT option Mathématiques at Lycée Benjamin FranklinY CombinatorDUT, Computer Science, DUT, Computer Science at IUT Orléans Département InformatiqueComputer Science, Computer Science at Teesside University
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Github Skills (54)
code-generator10
javascript10
website-development10
algolia10
testing10
typescript10
nextjs10
wpgraphql10
cicd10
code-generation10
front-end-development10
gateway10
wordpress-graphql10
typescript-types10
graphql10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
dotansimha/graphql-code-generator-community
Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 21 commits, 6 PRs in 23 days
Contributions summary:Charly primarily contributed to the project by refactoring and fixing various aspects of the code generation process. They removed website-related code, updated configuration files, and improved tests within the project's plugin structure. The user also backported a feature, fixed dev-test setups, and addressed compatibility issues with external libraries like `graphql-request`. These changes spanned across multiple plugins and involved updating configurations and addressing test failures.
dotansimha/graphql-code-generator
Jan 2022 - Nov 2022
A tool for generating code based on a GraphQL schema and GraphQL operations (query/mutation/subscription), with flexible support for custom plugins.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:207 reviews, 215 commits, 310 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Charly primarily contributed to the documentation and website aspects of the project, enhancing guides for React, Svelte, and backend use cases. They introduced new features such as SvelteKit Native and implemented UI improvements with the introduction of `<MDXTabs>`. Additionally, the user made performance optimizations and bug fixes in various areas, including resolvers, react-query plugins, and general website-related functionalities. They also worked on CI/CD scripts.
subscriptionmutationflexiblequeryreact
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