Maxi Gimenez
Engineering Team Lead at Checkly
Dublin, Ireland
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Top SchoolMaxi Gimenez is an engineering team lead based in Dublin with 12 years of experience building and scaling front-end platforms for SaaS companies. At Checkly he progressed from Lead Frontend Developer to Team Lead, driving product-quality engineering and contributing hands-on to projects like the headless-recorder Chrome extension that now generates Playwright/Puppeteer scripts. His background spans full-stack and mobile work—migrating legacy Rails frontends to React, adding types across Next.js internals, and shipping iOS features—so he balances architectural vision with practical implementation. Maxi is comfortable improving developer tooling and build/test pipelines, having refactored build processes and fixed subtle automation bugs. He often contributes to widely used open-source projects, bringing attention to developer experience and type safety in complex codebases. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic leader who still codes to unblock the team and iterates rapidly on product-facing features.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Ing, en Software, Ing, en Software at Universidad Empresarial 'Siglo 21'
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (21)
puppeteer10
javascript10
ui-components10
typescript10
nextjs10
chrome-extension10
google-chrome-extension10
component-kit10
vue10
typescript-types10
playwright10
typescripts10
react10
testing9
server-rendering9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
checkly/headless-recorder
Jun 2020 - Jan 2021
Chrome extension that records your browser interactions and generates a Playwright or Puppeteer script.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 10 reviews, 9 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Maxi primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and supporting new features within the Chrome extension. They added Playwright support, including the implementation of a new code generator, and also worked on integrating select features into the popup. Additionally, they addressed bugs by fixing the usage of `page.selectOption` and the display of UI elements. The user was also responsible for the refactoring and improving the build process and testing configurations.
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vercel/next.js
May 2020 - May 2020
The React Framework
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 11 PRs, 22 comments in 17 days
Contributions summary:Maxi contributed to type definitions and resolved missing type issues across multiple Next.js components and modules, primarily within the `create-next-app` and `next` packages. Their work involved adding types to helpers, link/router/document components, and server-side rendering functionality. Additionally, the user addressed missing types in various build and server-side utilities within the Next.js framework.
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