Xavier Hocquet
Engineering Lead at Findigs, Inc.
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXavier Hocquet is a hands-on engineering lead with a decade of experience building and scaling software across startups and growth-stage companies. Based in New York, he currently serves as Engineering Lead at Findigs, Inc., where he leads by example and puts people first to help teams deliver delightful software. Previously at Maxwell, he progressed from Software Engineer to Senior Software Engineer, Engineering Manager, and Staff Engineer, delivering secure auth layers, cross-app SSO, and scalable integrations while driving CI/CD adoption and improved observability. His full-stack background spans Ruby, JavaScript, DevOps, AWS, and legacy system modernization, with a track record of turning complex requirements into practical, auditable solutions and strong collaboration with sales and customers. An active open-source contributor, he helped enhance the beets music library project with a new lyrics provider and fixes, reflecting a knack for pragmatic, user-focused integrations. He earned a Bachelor's in Game Design and Development from Rochester Institute of Technology and brings a rare blend of technical depth, leadership, and curiosity to the table.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Game Design and Development, Bachelor’s Degree, Game Design and Development at Rochester Institute of TechnologyHigh School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, 12, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, 12 at The American School in Japan
French, Spanish, Japanese
Github Skills (8)
music-information-retrieval10
beautifulsoup10
python10
api9
apim9
testing8
cli7
musicbrainz6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
beetbox/beets
Dec 2019 - Apr 2021
music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 19 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Xavier primarily contributed to the beets music library manager by implementing features related to lyrics retrieval. Their work involved adding a new lyrics provider (Tekstowo), fixing issues with existing providers (Genius), and improving the overall functionality of the lyrics plugin. They also made improvements to the documentation and added changelog entries to reflect their changes. The changes show a focus on improving the integration with different lyric sources and addressing bugs.
clipythonmusicbrainztaggermusic
xhocquet/groceryguru-server
Jul 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:220 commits, 161 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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