Maximilien Mellen is a full-stack software engineer with 10 years’ experience building pragmatic, user-focused solutions across web, mobile, and blockchain platforms. Based in Tokyo, he has shipped production features at companies from DeepL and Klarna to Mercari, and contributed to the Arweave ecosystem by modernizing arweave-js typings, imports, and build tooling. He blends frontend polish (React, TypeScript, React Native) with backend concurrency work (Elixir/OTP, Erlang packaging) and a habit of improving developer ergonomics through stronger typings and automated builds. Known for approaching problems holistically, he also drives team learning and robust delivery—often tackling infrastructure and build-process improvements that aren’t obvious from product-facing features.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
DUT, Information Technology, DUT, Information Technology at Université Savoie Mont Blanc
English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese
Browser and Nodejs client for general interaction with the arweave protocol and gateways
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:10 commits, 21 PRs, 35 pushes in 1 day
Contributions summary:Maximilien primarily focused on improving the TypeScript typings within the Arweave-js library. They also replaced `require` statements with `import` statements, modernizing the codebase. Furthermore, the user built and formatted the distribution files for the project, demonstrating an understanding of the build process and code organization. They also worked on reorganizing the build process and aligning node and web indexes.
Contributions:66 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 9 months
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