Charlie Pank — Co-Founder

I've been writing code for 25 years across problems most engineers don't see: devops on JPMorgan's London trading floor, engineering through Skyscanner's hypergrowth to unicorn (8 years, finishing as Tribe Tech Lead), and more recently building complete products as a solo founder. The pattern is straightforward: understand the problem, pick appropriate tools, build the solution. C#, Java, Kotlin, JavaScript/TypeScript, PHP, SQL, Solidity. Mobile, backend, smart contracts, infrastructure. Whatever fits. Recent solo builds: HomeOfPilates: iOS/Android app with Firebase backend, hundreds of active users Sumer Exchange: CTO - built the complete product for agricultural commodities OTC trading on Web3 InstantEscrow.nz: P2P/ecommerce checkouts in stablecoin with buyer protection (Solidity contracts, Spring/Kotlin microservices, MongoDB, TypeScript frontend, containerized on GCP) Other background: Masters in Neurophysiology (Oxford), BEng Mechanical Engineering (First Class). Sailed halfway round the world twice as owner/skipper. Built the world's first Caterham 7 with FI Yamaha Genesis engine. UKPF-qualified mat-instructor. Wrote 'Everything Breaks All the Time' (available on AMZ) about the sailing. I wrote the "What's wrong with payments" series on Medium here: https://medium.com/@charliepank/whats-wrong-with-payments-e2ea2bbeec87 Available for advisory work with technical leaders working through real-world problems.

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Location: Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Experience: 13 yrs 2 mos