Alejandro Avilés
Full Stack Developer at unconventionaldotdev
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Summary
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RockstarAlejandro Avilés is a seasoned software leader and full-stack engineer with 13 years of experience building and scaling web applications, currently serving as CEO/CTO of unconventional.dev while also contributing software engineering expertise at the United Nations. He led major backend reimplementations at Indico (a CERN-originated, widely used event management system) migrating a large legacy codebase to Flask, PostgreSQL and SQLAlchemy, and improved frontend consistency with reusable UI components. Alejandro combines hands-on engineering with operational experience in complex deployments and VM orchestration, and has held CTO responsibilities at fintech startup Bity. Comfortable across Java, Python, and full-stack tooling, he pairs technical depth with hiring, mentorship and documentation practices. An active open-source contributor, his work on Indico reflects both feature development and architectural modernization that benefits institutions like CERN and the UN.
14 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (17)
event-handling10
python10
event-manager10
eventbus10
sqlalchemy10
database-design9
apidoc8
api8
html6
merge6
git-merge6
google-chrome6
css6
bash6
makefile6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
indico/indico
Mar 2013 - Oct 2022
Indico - A feature-rich event management system, made @ CERN, the place where the Web was born.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:76 reviews, 2267 commits, 187 PRs in 9 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Alejandro primarily worked on enhancing the backend functionality of the Indico event management system. Their contributions included adding and modifying properties and functions related to conference features, such as the ability to include nested notes and the automatic adjustment of date-time properties. They also added signals and event handlers to manage session blocks, manage contributions, and added support for session/contribution related features.
management-systemevent-management-systemeventspythoncern
OmeGak/indico
Jan 2015 - Dec 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 1737 pushes, 146 branches in 10 years
indicopython
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