Viktor Charypar
Head Of Engineering at Rayon.design
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolViktor Charypar is a seasoned technology leader and Head of Engineering with 13+ years of hands-on and leadership experience transforming digital products for enterprise clients across retail, publishing and finance. He combines a PhD-level background in software engineering and AI with a practical track record as a former software engineer and tech lead at Red Badger, where he tackled large-scale, high-uncertainty projects for clients like BBC, HSBC and Tesco. Comfortable both shipping low-level backend fixes (contributions to libgit2/rugged) and building cross-platform mobile apps in Rust, Viktor bridges deep technical craft with strategic team and product design. He excels at finding elegant solutions to complex problems, setting engineering strategy, and building teams that sustain capability over years rather than quarters. Based in London, he brings a consultant’s mindset to unlocking executive-level digital ambitions while still enjoying the puzzle of technical detail.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Software engineering artificial intelligence, PhD Software engineering artificial intelligence at Czech Technical University in PragueBc computer engineering, Bc computer engineering at University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague (UCT Prague)
Czech, English
Github Skills (16)
libgit2sharp10
mobile10
git10
libgit210
ios10
rust10
cross-platform10
mobile-development10
multiplatform10
back-end-development10
android10
ruby10
c119
error-handling9
c179
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
redbadger/crux
Oct 2022 - Feb 2023
Cross-platform app development in Rust
Role in this project:
Full-stack Mobile Developer
Full-stack Mobile DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 219 reviews, 174 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Viktor was heavily involved in the development of the cross-platform mobile application using Rust. Their contributions included adding features such as displaying and updating the text field. They focused on implementing the core logic and integrating it with the user interface. These changes spanned multiple areas of the application, including the core library, iOS, and Android implementations.
app-platformmobile-developmentrustlinuxcross-platform
libgit2/rugged
Apr 2014 - Jan 2015
ruby bindings to libgit2
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 10 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Viktor contributed to the Ruby bindings for libgit2, focusing on backend functionality. They addressed a crash related to null repository names. The user added and refined backend support, specifically within the `rugged_repo.c`, `rugged.h`, `lib/rugged.rb`, and `lib/rugged/backend.rb` files. They also improved error handling and memory management within the backend code.
libgit2ruby-bindingsruby
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