Michaël Hoste is a serial founder and software engineer with 14 years of experience building and commercializing SaaS and web/mobile products from Mons, Belgium. He designs and ships end-to-end solutions—most notably Translation.io, a localization platform serving thousands of customers, and Neurooo.com, an AI-driven machine translation service handling 100+ languages and tone control. Comfortable across the stack with Ruby on Rails backends and React frontends, he blends hands-on development with product leadership and B2B delivery through his agency 80LIMIT. An active open-source contributor, he has improved internationalization tooling like js-lingui by integrating it with Translation.io. His background in model-driven software evolution and student leadership hints at a mix of academic rigor and community-building that informs his pragmatic, scalable approach to product development.
14 years of coding experience
Licence, Informatique, Licence, Informatique at UMONS
🌍 📖 A readable, automated, and optimized (3 kb) internationalization for JavaScript
Role in this project:
Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Contributions:1 review, 5 commits, 5 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Michaël's contributions primarily focus on improving the documentation and integration with the translation service Translation.io for the js-lingui project. They corrected syntax issues in the documentation and added detailed documentation for the Translation.io integration, including installation steps, usage examples, and a description of its features. Additionally, the user addressed a case-sensitivity issue related to the cloud service's `import()` function.
Contributions:345 commits, 2 PRs, 46 pushes in 8 years 8 months
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