Francis Irving
Staff Software Engineer at Sagittal.ai
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolFrancis Irving is a Staff Software Engineer based in London with 18 years of experience building and leading engineering teams across startups and mission-driven organisations. He combines hands-on engineering with product and executive experience, having served as CEO of ScraperWiki, CTO at The Sensible Code Company, and Engineering Manager/Principal Engineer at Memrise. His background spans founding developer roles in civic tech (mySociety), technical consultancy, and current work at Sagittal.ai, showing a rare blend of entrepreneurial leadership and day-to-day technical delivery. Trained in mathematics at the University of Oxford, he brings strong analytical rigor to system design and problem solving. Colleagues know him for moving between strategic direction, hiring and architecture while still shipping production-quality code. He often operates at the intersection of data-driven products and developer tooling, turning complex requirements into pragmatic, maintainable systems.
18 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at University of Oxford
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
gundb10
tabular10
cubing10
parliament10
csv10
censorship-resistance10
decentralization10
scrape10
bootstrapping10
text-search10
xapian10
scraper10
extraction10
member10
scraperwiki10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
frabcus/binduino
Feb 2013 - Apr 2014
Contributions:39 commits in 1 year 2 months
frabcus/whatdotheyknow-theme
Aug 2020 - Nov 2024
The Alaveteli theme for WhatDoTheyKnow (UK)
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 3 months
whatdotheyknowalavetelialaveteli-theme
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