Jean-christophe Hoelt
Founder at Fovea
Lebanon
Summary
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RockstarJean-christophe Hoelt is a seasoned mobile-focused software founder with 21 years of hands-on experience building cross-platform smartphone apps and native integrations. Based in Lebanon, he blends low-level iOS work with modern stacks—Linux, macOS, Docker, Node.js and NoSQL—to ship reliable mobile features and backend services. As co-founder of Fovea and an active open-source contributor, he has materially improved widely used Cordova plugins, notably enhancing iOS SQLite storage and in-app purchase flows with background SQL execution, subscription handling and Braintree integration. His work shows a pragmatic emphasis on robustness and platform alignment, refactoring legacy code to match current Cordova APIs and improving transaction and receipt validation across ecosystems.
21 years of coding experience
English, French, Spanish, Arabic
Github Skills (7)
objective-c10
ios10
sqlite10
mobile-development10
cordova10
in-app-purchase10
javascript9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
j3k0/cordova-plugin-purchase
Jun 2013 - Jan 2023
In-App Purchase for Cordova on iOS, Android and Windows
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:50 releases, 3 reviews, 888 commits in 9 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jean-christophe primarily worked on the "cordova-plugin-purchase" repository, which is for in-app purchases for Cordova on iOS, Android, and Windows. Their contributions focused on refactoring the iOS implementation, adding support for managing subscriptions (including introductory offers and handling expiration), integrating and testing the Braintree framework, and improving receipt validation. This work involved significant changes to the codebase, including handling transaction management, integrating the Braintree SDK, and enhancing the user interface for payment-related features.
windowscordovain-app-purchasejavascriptios-android
storesafe/cordova-sqlite-storage
Mar 2013 - May 2013
A Cordova/PhoneGap plugin to open and use sqlite databases on Android, iOS and Windows with HTML5/Web SQL API
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:10 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jean-christophe primarily contributed to the Cordova SQLite storage plugin, focusing on iOS platform integration. They updated the code to align with the latest Cordova API, including modifications to the plugin's JavaScript and Objective-C/Swift source files. Their contributions involved refactoring the code, implementing background SQL execution, and enhancing the transaction handling capabilities. These changes improved database interactions for mobile applications.
apisqlite-databasesweb-sqlphonegap-pluginwindows
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