Nicolas Goutay
Staff Software Engineer at Orbit
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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RockstarNicolas Goutay is a Staff Software Engineer based in Paris with 11 years of experience building performant front-end applications. He currently works at Orbit and brings deep expertise in React ecosystems, having made impactful open-source contributions to the widely used Gatsby framework—most notably improving the gatsby-remark-prismjs plugin with robust code highlighting, line numbering, and test coverage. Nicolas combines pragmatic engineering with attention to developer experience, fixing layout edge cases and parsing directives to make tooling more reliable for content-heavy sites. Comfortable shipping cross-file changes in mature projects, he blends hands-on implementation skills with a sensitivity for documentation and testing. Colleagues can rely on him to improve both user-facing UI details and the developer workflows that support them.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (12)
plugin-development10
gatsbyjs10
javascript10
webapp10
prismjs10
gatsby10
react10
static-site-generator10
testing9
markdown-it9
markdown9
css7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
gatsbyjs/gatsby
Nov 2017 - Aug 2019
React-based framework with performance, scalability, and security built in.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 14 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily contributed to the `gatsby-remark-prismjs` plugin within the Gatsby repository, focusing on enhancing code highlighting and line numbering features. Their work involved adding line number functionality, including parsing options from code directives and generating the necessary HTML structure. They also fixed layout issues, added tests, and incorporated directives for improved code highlighting, demonstrating a strong understanding of frontend development and Gatsby plugin architecture. The user’s modifications spanned multiple files related to the prismjs plugin, indicating a significant contribution to this specific area of the project.
reactsecuritygatsbystatic-site-generatorweb-app
phacks/notion-ruby-client
Jan 2021 - Aug 2022
A Ruby client for the Notion API
Contributions:9 releases, 21 reviews, 96 commits in 1 year 7 months
notion-apiruby-client
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