Robin Goupil is a founder and technical director based in Bucharest with 11 years building cloud-native web and mobile applications for startups and enterprises. He combines hands-on full-stack expertise (React, Angular, Node.js, Go, AWS) with product-first delivery, leading teams through POCs, pre-sales, architecture design and process optimization. He is an active backend contributor to the popular open-source Strapi CMS, where he refactored entity manager lifecycle state and added unit tests—showing deep expertise in database layers and event handling. His background spans regulated medical-imaging systems integrated with ML (MammoScreen™, DICOM streaming) and scaling real-time gaming platforms that helped secure multimillion-euro funding. A believer in moving fast over chasing perfection, he focuses on shipping efficient, profitable solutions while mentoring teams to build resilient systems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Epitech
Bachelor EPITECH, Information Technology, 3.4 / 4 (GPA), Bachelor EPITECH, Information Technology, 3.4 / 4 (GPA) at EPITECH - European Institute of Technology / EPITECH
Master’s Degree, Advanced Computer Science, Computational Intelligence, Merit, Master’s Degree, Advanced Computer Science, Computational Intelligence, Merit at University of Kent
🚀 Strapi is the leading open-source headless CMS. It’s 100% JavaScript/TypeScript, fully customizable, and developer-first.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:5 reviews, 9 commits, 2 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Robin primarily contributed to the backend of the Strapi CMS, focusing on database interactions and lifecycle events. They refactored code within the entity manager to share state between lifecycle hooks (beforeXXX and afterXXX). They also worked on modifying the lifecycle provider to manage the state more effectively and added corresponding unit tests. This demonstrates a strong focus on the database layer and event handling within the Strapi framework.
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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