Robin Goupil is an engineering leader and founder with 11 years of experience building resilient web applications and product-led teams across startups and enterprises. As Executive Director and Co-founder of Zaneffi he combines hands-on development (React, Angular, Node.js, Go, AWS) with an outcome-driven discovery approach to modernise businesses using AI and data. He has led mission-critical real-time systems and growth-stage engineering at Nicecactus, helping scale a gaming product that contributed to multi-million euro fundraising. Robin contributes to notable open-source projects like Strapi, focusing on backend lifecycle and database state management, reflecting deep expertise in event handling and testing. Based in Bucharest, he blends product-first engineering with organisational knowledge sharing to increase team productivity and deliver measurable business value.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Epitech
Bachelor EPITECH, Information Technology, 3.4 / 4 (GPA), Bachelor EPITECH, Information Technology, 3.4 / 4 (GPA) at EPITECH - European Institute of Technology / EPITECH
Master’s Degree, Advanced Computer Science, Computational Intelligence, Merit, Master’s Degree, Advanced Computer Science, Computational Intelligence, Merit at University of Kent
🚀 Strapi is the leading open-source headless CMS. It’s 100% JavaScript/TypeScript, fully customizable, and developer-first.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:5 reviews, 9 commits, 2 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Robin primarily contributed to the backend of the Strapi CMS, focusing on database interactions and lifecycle events. They refactored code within the entity manager to share state between lifecycle hooks (beforeXXX and afterXXX). They also worked on modifying the lifecycle provider to manage the state more effectively and added corresponding unit tests. This demonstrates a strong focus on the database layer and event handling within the Strapi framework.
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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