Raphael Terrier
Head Of Developer Experience at Render
Angers, Pays de la Loire, France
Summary
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Top SchoolRaphael Terrier is a developer education and experience leader with 12 years of practice building high-performing teams and simplifying complex developer workflows across APIs, GraphQL, cloud platforms and emerging AI agent tooling. He has led Developer Education at Apollo GraphQL and now heads Developer Experience at Render, where his team spans DevRel, technical content, community and AI agent integration for a platform serving millions of developers. Raphael combines curriculum design, technical writing, video production and hands-on demos to create interactive learning paths that shorten time-to-value for engineers and partners. He has a maker’s background—founding mobile and hardware startups—and a formal design education from ENSAD, which informs his focus on usable, empathetic learning experiences. Known for aligning diverse skill sets around a shared vision, he pairs product-minded leadership with a practical bias toward demos, templates and tooling that developers actually use.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master, conception-création, Master, conception-création at ENSAD - Ecole National Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs
French, English, Spanish
Github Skills (51)
caching10
spec10
javascript10
apollo-federation10
restify10
graph10
hapi10
typescript10
rocket10
lift10
api10
apollo-client10
gateway10
ui-framework10
graphql-client10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
R4ph-t/apollo-client
Jul 2020 - Oct 2024
:rocket: A fully-featured, production ready caching GraphQL client for every UI framework and GraphQL server
Contributions:3 pushes in 4 years 2 months
graphql-clientapollographqlui-frameworkproduction-readycaching
R4ph-t/discourse-apollo-theme
Nov 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:99 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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