Maxime Castres
Growth Engineer at Strapi
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolMaxime Castres is a Growth Engineer based in Paris with nine years of hands-on experience blending full‑stack development and product-driven growth at Strapi. He contributes across frontend and backend—shipping upgrades to Next.js and Strapi, building guided in-app tours for demos, and improving core admin integrations—demonstrating a developer-first approach to developer tooling. Prior roles include founding a student crowdfunding startup and growth hacking at KissKissBankBank, giving him strong product intuition and entrepreneurial grit. An active open-source contributor to the flagship Strapi repo and starter projects, he focuses on documentation, component integrations, and practical UX improvements that help other developers onboard faster. His GitHub tagline hints at a playful, precise coding style, and his background from 42 and UPMC underscores a self-directed, technical learning path.
9 years of coding experience
Un max de connaissances, Computer Programming, Un max de connaissances, Computer Programming at 42Computer Programming, Computer Programming at Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Github Skills (21)
content-management-system10
cms10
javascript10
typescript10
nextjs10
front-end-development10
headless-cms10
content-management10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
strapi10
react10
back-end-development9
wpgraphql9
vue9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
strapi/foodadvisor
Jan 2021 - Nov 2022
🥘 THE Strapi demo application
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:37 reviews, 123 commits, 53 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Maxime implemented and updated a guided tour feature for the Strapi demo application. Their contributions included the creation of interactive tours to introduce users to the application's key functionalities. They focused on integrating the `reactour` library to create these in-app guides. The user also upgraded Strapi and fixed links to ensure the demo's functionality.
strapickeditor5graphql
strapi/strapi-starter-next-blog
Mar 2020 - Sep 2020
Strapi Starter Next Blog
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 10 PRs, 34 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Maxime made various updates to the Strapi Next Blog starter project. The commits include updating the backend's `index.html` file and the `bootstrap.js` configuration. The user also updated the frontend code, including changes in `article.js`, `card.js`, and `apollo.js`, and upgraded Next.js and Strapi versions. These changes suggest contributions across both frontend and backend aspects of the project.
next-starternext-blogckeditor5graphqlstrapi
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