Raphael Gaschignard
Backend Tech Lead at Uptick
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolRaphael Gaschignard is a backend tech lead with 14 years of experience delivering pragmatic, high-impact web services and developer tooling. Based in Queensland, Australia, he excels in small-team environments where prioritizing what matters and fixing team-level process issues both drive velocity and quality. A polyglot programmer with deep Python/Django expertise, he has contributed notable fixes and features to widely used open-source projects like django-taggit and xonsh. He has driven infrastructure and developer-experience improvements—introducing TypeScript, Mypy, observability, Bazel-led CI reductions, and on-call rotations—while shipping full-stack features and payment integrations. Currently open for full-time or contract roles, he pairs hands-on engineering with a focus on sustainable processes and measurable operational wins.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Computer Software Engineering, Engineer's degree Computer Software Engineering at IMT AtlantiqueUniversity of Tokyo
English, French, Japanese
Github Skills (21)
web-widgets10
widgets10
python10
django10
prompt-toolkit10
html-template10
python-templates10
code-templates10
apptemplates10
xonsh10
shell10
cpp-templates10
cli10
serialization9
data-serialization9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
jazzband/django-taggit
Aug 2018 - Nov 2022
Simple tagging for django
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:40 reviews, 85 commits, 116 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Raphael contributed to the django-taggit project by implementing new features and refactoring existing code. They focused on improving the functionality of the TaggableManager, adding support for custom tag models and through defaults. The user also addressed issues related to prefetch_related, and serializer improvements.
pythondjangodjango-blogdjango-projecttagging
jazzband/django-floppyforms
Apr 2017 - May 2020
Full control of form rendering in the templates.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:53 commits, 26 PRs, 19 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Raphael primarily contributed to the `django-floppyforms` project by adding and updating support for various Django versions. They addressed deprecated configurations, updated template settings, and integrated code changes related to Django 1.10, 1.11, and 2.1. They also backported functions and fixed issues related to widget rendering and template handling across different Django versions.
renderingreact
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