Joachim Westphal
Lead Developer at Staycation
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolJoachim Westphal is a Lead Developer based in Paris with 11 years of hands-on experience building and leading engineering teams across startups and product companies. He co-founded and scaled SPARTED’s engineering organization from core team developer to CTO before taking on his current leadership role at Staycation. A pragmatic full-stack engineer, Joachim contributes to notable open-source internationalization tooling such as i18next-parser, adding Unicode and JSON v4 support and strengthening parsing/tests. His background blends formal software training at 42 with earlier studies in design and musicology, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to problem solving. Known for shipping reliable tooling and mentoring teams, he pairs deep technical curiosity with a passion for philosophy and technology.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Software Development, Software Development at 42MANAA, Design et arts appliqués, MANAA, Design et arts appliqués at Bellecour EcoleLicence, Musicologie et ethnomusicologie, 1ère année, Licence, Musicologie et ethnomusicologie, 1ère année at Université Lumière Lyon 2
English, French
Github Skills (17)
parserator10
javascript10
parser10
rails-i18n10
translation10
testing10
jes10
internationalization10
ember-i18n10
jtest10
i18n-js10
handlebars9
json9
jsx9
typescripts8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
i18next/i18next-parser
Jul 2021 - Oct 2021
Parse your code to extract translation keys/values and manage your catalog files
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 72 commits, 4 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Joachim primarily contributed to the `i18next-parser` repository, which focuses on parsing code for internationalization purposes. Their work involved implementing and enhancing features related to parsing and handling translation keys and values. Key contributions include support for unicode escape sequences and ordinal features, along with improvements to the codebase and tests. They also refactored and updated the code to add support for JSON v4 and various other improvements.
parserlocalizationi18nexti18ninternationalization
Elindorath/dotfiles
Jan 2016 - Feb 2025
Contributions:80 pushes, 4 branches in 9 years 2 months
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