I'm Charlie.
Tech lead. AI engineer. Founder of Camber Co. Ten years shipping software, now helping small businesses do more with AI. London, UK.
- Shipping software
- 12yrs
- Companies along the way
- 7
- Automations shipped
- 40+
- Daily users reached
- 500k+
- Personal apps shipped
- 4
Why founders hire me.
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Scale you can borrow
I built checkout used by 500,000 people a day at Just Eat and led the accessibility work on Trainline's booking flow. Your lead form and booking system are a quiet Tuesday by comparison.
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AI in production, not in slides
At Fairplay Sports Media I design and run AI agent fleets that do real work every day. The same patterns power the automations I build for clients.
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Boring, reliable software
At the BBC I built the internal tools that ran the entire online video catalogue. Systems that quietly work are a speciality. That is exactly what your automation should be.
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Deliberately small
I take on a small number of clients each quarter and lead every project personally. You get the person who built the thing, not an account manager.
Ten years, six companies, one direction.
Jan 2024 to Present Fairplay Sports Media Tech Lead, Subscriptions
Lead the frontend for global subscriptions and run production AI agent fleets across the business.
- Launched and scaled revenue-generating subscription products as part of a wider career helping generate millions in revenue across consumer platforms.
- Lead the frontend strategy for the global subscriptions team, balancing new commercial features with the modernisation of a 15-year-old legacy stack.
- AI advocate within the business, designing and deploying agents in n8n + ADK to automate internal workflows.
- Architect scalable frontend solutions that let marketing iterate quickly on pricing and bundles.
Oct 2022 to Jan 2024 Trainline Senior Web Engineer
Shipped a fully screen-reader-compliant booking flow for one of Europe's largest rail platforms.
- Maintained and enhanced the web infrastructure for one of Europe's largest rail platforms.
- Spearheaded critical accessibility improvements, enabling a fully compliant end-to-end booking flow for screen reader users.
- Implemented Playwright for automated E2E testing across the platform, significantly reducing regression defects in production.
- On-call rotation, resolving high-priority customer issues to keep service running.
Feb 2021 to Oct 2022 Just Eat Takeaway Senior Web Engineer
Built the unified global checkout used by 500,000+ customers a day across international markets.
- Pivotal in building a unified global checkout used by 500,000+ customers daily across international markets.
- Led the i18n of core components, enabling expansion into new territories with bespoke language and currency requirements.
- Devised and ran rigorous A/B tests on checkout flows, directly impacting Gross Transaction Value.
- Mentored junior engineers and led code reviews in a high-traffic environment.
Jul 2019 to Feb 2021 Oddschecker Senior Frontend Developer
Led the frontend rebrand and scaled the site through an 800x traffic surge to 400,000+ daily users.
- Led the frontend rebrand of the Oddschecker website and handled a traffic surge from 500 unique views to 400,000+ daily.
- Oversaw the US site launch and growth strategy, scaling from 60 daily users to a peak of 400,000.
- Established consistent dev processes and a component library, reducing tech debt and speeding feature delivery.
- Managed the frontend release lifecycle through periods of explosive concurrent traffic.
Oct 2017 to Jan 2019 BBC (Editorial Services) Web Developer
Built the internal tools running the BBC's entire online video catalogue and EPG scheduling.
- Developed critical internal software managing the BBC's entire online video content library and EPG scheduling.
- Delivered robust, scalable tools supporting digital content delivery for internal production teams and external partners.
Jul 2016 to Oct 2017 Blue Bridge Solutions Junior Full Stack Developer
Designed a web-based point-of-sale system with complex SQL Server reporting.
- Designed a web-based point-of-sale system in AngularJS + C# ASP.NET, including complex reporting features over SQL Server data.
- Managed the full application lifecycle, translating client business requirements into technical solutions.
2013 to 2016 University of Plymouth BSc Computer Science (2:1)
BSc Computer Science (2:1), with a first-class final year project.
- BSc Computer Science, University of Plymouth (2:1).
- First-class grade on final year project. Academic Award of Excellence (Plymouth University & BCS).
- 2012 to 2013: Cornwall College, Access to Computing (Distinction). Academic Award of Excellence for distinctions in all modules.
What I work with.
AI and automation
- Claude Code
- Daily driver for building software with AI, from small scripts to full agents.
- n8n
- Production agent fleets at Fairplay; client automations at Camber Co.
- ADK
- Google's Agent Development Kit for multi-agent orchestration.
- LLM Integration
- OpenAI, Anthropic, local models. RAG, tool use, evals.
- AI Agents
- Autonomous and semi-autonomous workflows in production.
Websites and apps
- React
- 10+ years across web. Used at every company since Oddschecker.
- Astro
- Building this site, plus content-heavy work for clients.
- TypeScript
- Default for new projects, strict mode always.
- React Native
- Built and shipped Football IQ to the App Store. Second app on the way.
- Swift / SwiftUI
- Built Jodz end-to-end for iPhone + Mac with no third-party deps.
Testing and reliability
- Playwright
- Spearheaded E2E coverage at Trainline; cut regression defects significantly.
- CI/CD
- GitHub Actions pipelines across teams, tested and deployed.
- SQL Server
- Reporting layer for the POS system at Blue Bridge.
- Accessibility
- Led screen-reader-compliant booking flow at Trainline.
Leadership and growth
- Legacy Modernisation
- Modernising a 15-year-old subscription stack at Fairplay.
- Internationalisation
- i18n core components for Just Eat's global checkout.
- A/B Testing
- Iterated checkout at Just Eat, directly driving GTV.
- SEO
- Technical and content SEO for client work at Camber Co.
- Mentorship
- Mentored juniors at Just Eat; coach non-technical founders today.
Things I've shipped.
Football IQ Daily football quiz with 15 game modes, run by one founder with Claude. Live
A daily football quiz with 15 game modes: Career Path, Transfer Guess, Starting XI, Connections, Higher or Lower and more. Built with React Native and Expo on Supabase, on iPhone and the web. An AI assistant drafts new puzzles every day and checks the facts, and every one is approved before it goes live. Pro opens the whole archive.
React Native, Expo, Supabase, AI agents, PostHog, RevenueCat
View on the App StoreJodz Privacy-first cashflow forecasting for iPhone and Mac. In submission
Jodz answers "where will my money be?" instead of "where did it go?". A single continuous timeline projects every bill, payday, subscription and scheduled event months ahead. Built end to end in Swift 6 and SwiftUI with SwiftData and a CloudKit private database. No third-party SDKs, no analytics, no tracking. Universal Purchase across iPhone and Mac with a Home Screen widget.
Swift 6, SwiftUI, SwiftData, CloudKit
What’s My Take Home Free UK take-home pay and tax calculators. Live
Free UK tax calculators for the 2026/27 tax year: take-home pay, salary versus dividends, IR35, day rates, self-employed tax and more. A fully static Next.js site on Cloudflare. Every calculation runs in the browser, with no backend and no sign-up.
Next.js 15, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Recharts, Cloudflare
Visit the websiteClipPin Open-source Mac clipboard history manager. Open source
A native Mac clipboard history manager, open source on GitHub. Built for the kind of person who copies twelve things in a row and needs them all back later.
Swift, macOS
View on GitHubWhoScored Plus AI-assisted match analysis for one of the biggest football stats sites. Professional work
An AI-assisted analysis product shipped to the high-volume WhoScored audience. Part of a suite architected for rapid experimentation on pricing, bundles and content surfaces.
AI, Subscriptions, Sports Analytics
Oddschecker Plus AI-assisted analysis tools for the UK betting comparison leader. Professional work
AI-assisted analysis tools shipped to the Oddschecker audience. Charlie previously led the frontend rebrand of the Oddschecker website through an 800x traffic surge, so this is home turf.
AI, Subscriptions, Sports Analytics
Gazzetta AI Predictor AI match predictions for La Gazzetta dello Sport readers. Professional work
An AI prediction product shipped to the readership of La Gazzetta dello Sport, one of the biggest sports titles in Europe. Built as part of a suite of AI-assisted sports analysis tools serving high-volume audiences.
AI, Sports Analytics
AI-Native QA Systems AI-driven browser automation with Playwright. Professional work
Playwright-based testing systems augmented with AI: tests that understand what they are looking at, not just what they are clicking. Built early as a productivity layer and shipped into production before most teams were paying attention.
Playwright, AI Testing, Browser Automation, CI/CD
What I'm currently doing.
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- Leading subscriptions at Fairplay Sports Media, part of a career helping generate millions in revenue
- Scaling Camber Co, AI automation for small businesses
- Shipping Jodz to the App Store
- Running whatsmytakehome.co.uk, free UK tax calculators
- Designing n8n agent fleets for clients
- Writing about all of it on the blog
Want to build something together?
I lead subscriptions at Fairplay Sports Media by day and take on a small number of Camber Co clients each quarter. The cap is deliberate. Every project gets me personally, from first call to handover.
- No commitment
- No jargon
- Just signal