About
Charly held a tech lead position at Algolia, where he developed a background jobs processing system. He has contributed to open-source projects and written technical articles on TypeScript and GraphQL; he now leads Defer, a platform for Node.js async workflow development.
Charly Poly @whereischarly
- "AI enables us to work with unstructured data and navigate the unknown" - "Hmm, actually, let's provide AI with ontology and data graphs" Software engineering is an endless cycle. Soon, everybody will discover that https://t.co/UnKQffA0e2 was enough for 80% of the tasks
Jul 30, 2026 Β· β₯ 5
Charly Poly @whereischarly
"It has become common to draw comparisons with fiber [...]. The narrow problem with that is that fiber construction was far ahead of demand, where AI compute construction is far behind demand, though, as above, we donβt know what that supply/demand balance will look like in the
Jul 28, 2026 Β· β₯ 1
Charly Poly @whereischarly
https://t.co/5GsNl4FspK π
Jul 27, 2026
Founder at DeferYC W23
Intro paths
Charly went through Y Combinator (Winter 2023) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Nicolas Dessaigne, General Partner at Y Combinator β the partner who ran Defer's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
In turn, Charly can intro founders to Defer's investors below.
Defer's investors Β· 1
Co-founders at Defer
