Alban Escalier
Software Engineer at Benchling
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAlban Escalier is a pragmatic software engineer with nine years of experience building full-stack applications and production-ready cloud infrastructure, currently contributing at Benchling from Vancouver. He blends front-end expertise in JavaScript/React with back-end API development (REST/GraphQL) and a strong focus on AWS serverless architectures, CDK, and CI/CD improvements. His background spans startups and large tech firms—including a senior role at Facebook—giving him a track record of shipping reliable systems and improving team delivery practices. An active contributor to the aws-cdk project, he’s fixed permissions and added NLB access logging and CloudWatch integrations, showing deep practical knowledge of infrastructure-as-code. He’s passionate about tooling, testing (TDD/BDD), and knowledge sharing to amplify team productivity.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BTS Informatique et réseaux pour l'industrie et les services techniques, Software Development, BTS Informatique et réseaux pour l'industrie et les services techniques, Software Development at Turgot High SchoolMaster's Degree, Project Management, Development, Master's Degree, Project Management, Development at Ecole d'ingénieur 3il - Limoges
French, English
Github Skills (10)
infrastructure-as-code10
typescript10
cloud-infrastructure10
typescripts10
aws10
aws-cdk10
typescript-types10
codebuild9
aws-step-functions8
ias8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-cdk
Jun 2020 - Oct 2021
The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:24 reviews, 19 commits, 19 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Alban primarily focused on enhancing the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) framework, specifically related to AWS services and infrastructure as code. They addressed critical issues by implementing missing permissions and adding support for features like access logging for Network Load Balancers (NLB) and enabling CloudWatch LogGroup targets. The contributions involved modifying existing code, adding new functionality, and testing the implemented solutions. The work demonstrates a solid understanding of AWS services and CDK best practices.
development-kitaws-cloudcloud-infrastructureinfrastructurecloud-development
DaWyz/aws-cdk
May 2020 - May 2023
The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code
Contributions:4 PRs, 120 pushes, 28 branches in 3 years
development-kitaws-cloudcloud-infrastructureinfrastructurecloud-development
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