Florian Rival
Founder, CEO at GDevelop
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolFlorian Rival is a founder and CEO with a decade of engineering experience who builds GDevelop, an open-source, VC-backed platform that makes game creation radically more accessible. Previously he shipped gaming-focused tooling at Google (Android Games team) and built large internal web apps at Facebook, combining systems, C++ and front-end expertise. He’s an active open-source maintainer and TYPO3 contributor who has fixed PHP8-related core issues, reflecting a pragmatic attention to compatibility and legacy code. Comfortable across full stacks—from performance-sensitive native integrations to React and Node.js backends—he also has a track record of coaching teams and speaking at international conferences. Based in Paris, he blends startup execution with enterprise-grade engineering discipline and a passion for lowering the barrier to creative software.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Mathematics and Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Mathematics and Computer Science at National School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics of GrenoblePreparatory courses MP (intensive study of mathematics and physics), Preparatory courses MP (intensive study of mathematics and physics) at Lycée Alain René Lesage
French, English
Stackoverflow
29reputation
3kreached
3answers
2questions
Github Skills (16)
content-management-system10
debug10
php10
cms10
typo310
cm10
testing9
frontend8
content-management7
facebook6
comctl326
facebook-graph-api6
linux6
android6
llvm6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
TYPO3/typo3
Oct 2021 - Apr 2022
The TYPO3 Core - Enterprise Content Management System. Synchronized mirror of https://review.typo3.org/q/project:Packages/TYPO3.CMS
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 2 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Florian primarily focused on bug fixes within the TYPO3 CMS core, specifically addressing issues related to undefined array keys that arose with PHP8. Their contributions include resolving warnings in various components like `FilePathSanitizer`, `form`, `frontend`, and `backend/history`. The changes involved modifying existing code to prevent these warnings and ensure the correct functioning of the CMS, with a focus on content rendering and form handling. They also modified test code to better simulate frontend web requests.
cmsmanagement-systemphpsynchronizedtypo3-cms
Oktopuce/site_generator
Feb 2020 - Feb 2022
Site generator wizard for Typo3 : used to generate mini-website or duplicate tree model.
Contributions:2 reviews, 13 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years
duplicatephpsite-generatortree-modeltypo3
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