Alex Garel
Software Development Engineer at Open Food Facts
Arras, Hauts-de-France, France
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Garel is a seasoned Software Development Engineer with 15 years of experience building full-stack, data-driven systems—especially in Python, NLP, machine learning and ElasticSearch—now contributing to the volunteer-driven Open Food Facts project. He has led engineering at an AI startup, driven R&D on search and document pipelines, and repeatedly focused on robustness, performance and devops for production services. Comfortable from research to deployment, he combines hands-on backend refactors and Docker improvements with product-minded roadmap input. Based in Arras, France, he brings a values-driven approach (common good and kindness) and a history of improving real-world public-interest platforms, including bug fixes and Docker/asset workflow enhancements to the widely used Open Food Facts codebase.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
lycée, Bac C, lycée, Bac C at st stanislas carcassonneMath Sup, Math Sup at Lycée FermatIngénieur, Informatique et Mathématiques appliquées, Ingénieur, Informatique et Mathématiques appliquées at ENSEEIHT - Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Electrotechnique, d'Electronique, d'Informatique, d'Hydraulique et des TélécommunicationsMath Spé M, Math Spé M at Lycée Bellevue, Toulouse
French, English, German, Italian
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Github Skills (15)
perl10
dockers9
docker9
api8
apidoc8
database7
databases7
javascript7
express-handlebars6
python-multiprocessing6
i18next6
ipython6
next-i18next6
dask6
jupyter6
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-server
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Open Food Facts database, API server and web interface - 🐪🦋 Perl, CSS and JS coders welcome 😊 For helping in Python, see Robotoff or taxonomy-editor
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 releases, 1815 reviews, 471 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Alex contributed to the Open Food Facts server project by fixing return statements and documenting the `analyze_request` function. They addressed several bugs related to email handling and the Gulpfile configuration for dynamic asset generation in development mode. Furthermore, they improved the Docker setup and made several refactoring efforts in the codebase.
cssdatabasejsperlpython
jurismarches/luqum
Jan 2016 - Oct 2022
A lucene query parser generating ElasticSearch queries and more !
Contributions:1 release, 19 reviews, 158 commits in 6 years 10 months
elasticsearch-querieslucenequery-parserelasticsearchparser
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