Joël Charles
Founder at What's New Games
Cholet, Pays de la Loire, France
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Top SchoolJoël Charles is a founder and full-stack software engineer with 14 years of experience building desktop and web platforms from core architecture to UX. He co-founded and served as CTO of Station—helping ship a unified desktop app—and now leads What's New Games while hiring in Paris. An active open-source contributor, he improves core frameworks like Vike (SSR and Vercel integration) and contributes across front-end, back-end, and build tooling. His background in parallel programming and system architecture (IUT Orsay, IBM, SOFYNE) gives him a strong foundation in concurrent-safe server work and reliable updater/build systems. Comfortable shifting between product-focused leadership and hands-on coding, he’s notable for shipping fixes that span onboarding, auto-updates, and platform integrations. Based in Cholet, France, he blends startup grit with deep technical craftsmanship and an eye for developer tooling.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Licentiate degree, Parallel Programming Paradygms, Licentiate degree, Parallel Programming Paradygms at IUT Orsay
English, French
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Github Skills (31)
javascript10
electron10
vercel10
server-side-rendering10
typescript10
vite10
plugin10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
solidity9
solidjs9
solid-start9
nodejs9
nodes9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
getstation/desktop-app
Jul 2021 - Feb 2022
One app to rule them all!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 46 reviews, 28 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Joël contributed to multiple areas of the desktop application, including core functionality, UI improvements, and build configurations. They modified the auto-updater service, updated the settings panel, and addressed a crash related to the subdock. Furthermore, they also implemented changes to the onboarding process and open-source information section. Their contributions span across the front-end, back-end, and build processes, reflecting a full-stack development role.
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vikejs/vike
Jun 2022 - Jul 2022
🔨 The Framework *You* Control - Next.js & Nuxt alternative for unprecedented flexibility and dependability.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:30 reviews, 7 commits, 24 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Joël primarily contributed to the Vike framework, focusing on improving server-side rendering and the Vercel integration. Their work includes updating client-side rendering examples for Solid, adding and exporting helper functions for Vercel plugins via an internal export, and making page context concurrent-safe in prerendering. The changes demonstrate a focus on improving the core functionality and tooling of the Vike framework. The user also addressed TypeScript export resolution.
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