Maxime Fischer
Back End Engineer at Thought Machine
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMaxime Fischer is a Back End Engineer based in London with 11 years of experience building production-grade distributed systems and APIs, currently driving backend work at Thought Machine. He has deep hands-on expertise in Go, gRPC/protobuf microservices and CI/CD, demonstrated by contributions to widely used open-source projects like grpc-gateway and golang/mock that improved parsing, import handling and code-generation correctness for complex Go codebases. His background spans healthcare and blockchain startups—implementing microservice architectures, Hyperledger Fabric chaincode and client-side crypto—plus optimisations for performance and cost at scale. A Distinction holder in Computer Science from the University of Kent, he combines rigorous academic training with practical engineering: quietly improving tooling and testability in ecosystems many teams rely on.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
EpitechBaccalauréat, Science, Assez Bien, Baccalauréat, Science, Assez Bien at Lycée Don Bosco LandserMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, Distinction, Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Distinction at University of Kent
French, English, German
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Github Skills (16)
rest-api10
go10
text-parsing10
parsing10
grpc-gateway10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
grpc10
reflection9
reflections9
dependency-management8
openapi8
software-design8
testing7
javascript6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
golang/mock
Feb 2017 - Dec 2017
GoMock is a mocking framework for the Go programming language.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Maxime primarily focused on improving the parsing functionality of the GoMock framework. Their contributions included enhancing the parsing of imported packages, including handling embedded interfaces from imported packages, and integrating import information to assist in the parsing process. They also addressed the handling of vendor directories during package import and separated the lists of imported and aux interfaces. These changes collectively improve the framework's ability to parse and generate mock code for more complex Go projects.
golangtestingmocksmockinggomock
grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
gRPC to JSON proxy generator following the gRPC HTTP spec
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 6 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Maxime contributed to the `grpc-gateway` project by implementing and fixing features related to gRPC to JSON proxy generation. Their work focused on improving the generation of code for methods, specifically addressing import statements and handling methods without bindings. They also updated example code to include features with no bindings and resolved issues in test setup by changing import paths. Their contributions demonstrate a focus on refining the core functionality and correctness of the gRPC gateway generation process.
to-jsonproxyfollowinggrpcspec
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