Sebastien React
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Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolSebastien React is a founder and contractor with 14 years of hands-on experience focused exclusively on React and React Native since 2013, helping teams iterate faster through audits, architecture, coaching, and migrations. He leads Facebook's Docusaurus open-source project and publishes the popular ThisWeekInReact.com newsletter, combining community stewardship with practical engineering. A prolific open-source contributor, he has improved high-profile repos like Gatsby and React Native docs and earned over 50,000 StackOverflow points, signaling deep community trust. He prefers short, high-impact engagements across multiple companies rather than full-time implementation, ensuring knowledge transfer and no vendor lock-in. Based in Paris, he pairs startup CTO experience with consultancy work for major clients and excels at bootstrapping projects, robust tooling, and ambitious R&D. An interesting detail: his workflow intentionally limits scope to React to maintain deep specialization and speed of delivery.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering school (master) CS, Engineering school (master) CS at ESILV - Ecole Supérieure d'Ingénieurs Léonard de VinciBac S (maths high school), Bac S (maths high school) at Lycée Pasteur
English, French
Stackoverflow
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433answers
334questions
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Github Skills (75)
composition10
website-development10
web-application10
react-redux10
redux-thunk10
javascript10
react-native-web10
keyboard10
front-end-development10
webapp10
gatsby10
cors10
typescript10
timedelta10
java10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/docusaurus
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Easy to maintain open source documentation websites.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:68 releases, 2151 reviews, 962 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Sebastien focused on enhancing the Docusaurus documentation website, specifically addressing issues related to the display and rendering of code blocks and menu layouts. Their contributions included refactoring and improving the handling of code block styles and adding new features for better accessibility such as setting the correct attributes on page. They also focused on making the website more user-friendly by implementing and refining the use of the sidebar layout, ensuring that it remained functional with different viewports.
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APSL/react-native-keyboard-aware-scroll-view
Jun 2018 - Nov 2021
A ScrollView component that handles keyboard appearance and automatically scrolls to focused TextInput.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 22 commits, 21 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Sebastien primarily contributed to the `react-native-keyboard-aware-scroll-view` library, enhancing its functionality and addressing existing issues. They focused on improving the integration with animated components, specifically `Animated.ScrollView`, to support features like parallax effects. Additionally, the user added methods to the component's API and refactored the component to support Animated wrappers. Several commits show the developer improving existing code.
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