François Chalifour

@francois
France
he/him

Algolia

GitHub

Open Source Maintainer

React

JavaScript

Software Engineer

Front-end Developer

Project Management

Musician

Product Management

UX Design

Open Source

Software Engineering

Product Design

Skateboarding

Startup Enthusiast

Developer Experience

Domain-Driven Design

Music Producer

Saxophone

Guitarist

AI Enthusiast

Design, code and skate. Music too. Those are the four elements I cherish in life.

My thing is creating things. I work at Algolia, too. You can find me on Twitter and GitHub.

I'm open to

beta testing new products,

open source contributions,

brainstorming,

full time roles,

and co-founding a company.

Contact Me

Resume

Jan 2018 - Present

Staff Software Engineer, Algolia

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I introduced support for Server-side rendering in React InstantSearch Hooks. These new server APIs let you render your search app on the server, and then make it interactive on the browser. (Server...

I released React InstantSearch Hooks as experimental. React Hooks for InstantSearch was a long-awaited feature that lets you create rich search UIs with friendly and modern React primitives. This n...

I was a guest on a podcast talking about Nailing down the right abstractions with Tim Neutkens, Lead Engineer of Next.js. Listen it on: • Apple Music • Spotify • All platforms

I wrote "Reproducing Medium's image zoom", where I explain how I created an open-source JavaScript library for zooming images like Medium.