Alessandro Vernet
Co-Founder at Orbeon, Inc.
San Carlos, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlessandro Vernet is a seasoned founder and CTO with over 15 years building web form platforms, co-founding Orbeon in 1999 and architecting its flagship open-source Orbeon Forms product. He implemented an XForms engine in Ajax/JavaScript, co-authored the W3C XML Pipeline Language specification, and has been active in the XForms and XProc working groups, blending standards work with pragmatic engineering. His background includes RAD development at Symantec and a strong XML/Java pedigree reflected in multiple technical books and an award-winning academic thesis. On GitHub he has kept Orbeon Forms healthy by regularly modernizing Java and Scala dependencies, demonstrating a commitment to long-term maintainability. Based in Silicon Valley with an MS in Computer Science from EPFL, he combines deep protocol and tooling expertise with entrepreneurial product instincts. Colleagues describe him as someone who turns web standards into production-ready developer tools.
15 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master (MS), Computer Science (CS), Master (MS), Computer Science (CS) at EPFL
Github Skills (8)
dependency-management10
sbt10
build-automation10
scala10
java9
javas9
scalatest8
junit8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
orbeon/orbeon-forms
Apr 2011 - Jan 2023
Orbeon Forms is an open source web forms solution. It includes an XForms engine, the Form Builder web-based form editor, and the Form Runner runtime.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:180 commits, 416 PRs, 22 pushes in 11 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Alessandro primarily focused on updating and managing dependencies within the Orbeon Forms project. This involved upgrading numerous Scala and Java library versions, including those related to testing, Scala, and various utility libraries. The commits show consistent efforts to keep the project's dependencies up-to-date, ensuring compatibility and incorporating necessary updates.
form-builderweb-formsxformsruntimeweb-based
orbeon/orbeon-forms-doc
Jan 2011 - Jan 2015
Contributions:6 commits, 1 branch in 4 years
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