Cristian Bote
Founder at SuperPrompts
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Summary
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RockstarCristian Bote is a founder and senior JavaScript engineer with 13 years building end-to-end products using TypeScript, React, Next.js, React Native and Supabase, currently leading AI-driven startups and serving as Senior Staff Engineer at Magic. He designs and ships full systems—from containerized build runners and GitHub orchestration to multi-platform apps—most notably creating getaidev.com, where autonomous AI agents write, test and deliver code via PRs. A proven builder of valuable products, he revamped a cross-platform audiobook app that tripled valuation and drove an acquisition, and authored a React-for-WordPress framework later acquired by WordPress. An active open-source contributor, he’s fixed core issues and added tests across prominent projects like Preact and Frontity, showing deep expertise in rendering, bundling and dev tooling. Based in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Cristian pairs rapid iteration informed by customer feedback with a knack for bridging classic platforms and modern JS workflows.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (27)
javascript10
ui-components10
testing10
typescript10
frontity10
component-kit10
dom10
typescript-types10
preact10
build-tools10
typescripts10
react10
jsx10
e2e-test9
e2e-testing9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
frontity/frontity
Oct 2020 - Jul 2021
» Frontity - The React Framework for WordPress
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:86 reviews, 213 commits, 59 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Cristian contributed primarily to the front-end development of the Frontity framework for WordPress. They focused on enhancing the codebase by dynamically importing scripts for serve, build and dev scripts, as well as fixing create-package with invalid namespace issues. The user made updates related to React 17 and the emotion library, including the correct use of JSX runtime, and implemented functionality to add or modify custom features in the HTML. They also addressed component related errors and introduced e2e testing to confirm proper operation.
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preactjs/preact
Feb 2019 - Jan 2021
⚛️ Fast 3kB React alternative with the same modern API. Components & Virtual DOM.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 73 commits, 38 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Cristian primarily focused on improving the Preact library's rendering and component behavior. Their contributions involved fixing issues related to `dangerouslySetInnerHTML`, optimizing event handling for global events, and ensuring correct rendering of style attributes. They also implemented tests to cover component lifecycle methods and ensure the correct behavior of lifecycle callbacks. Furthermore, the user contributed to the testing infrastructure, renaming test files and switching effect hooks to `raf+setTimeout`.
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