Alex Hoyau
CTO at INTERNET 2000
France
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Hoyau is a pragmatic technology leader and CTO with 14 years of professional experience and a 20+-year history in web development, combining hands-on engineering, DevOps and people leadership from startup scale-ups to public-sector platforms. Based in Paris, he co-founded and continues to maintain Silex, a widely used free open-source website builder, and champions static/JAMstack, serverless and green IT practices in production. He has led high-traffic projects (millions of monthly views at beta.gouv.fr) and industrialized systems handling millions of daily requests, while coaching teams and helping non‑developers adopt no-code tooling. Known for blending pragmatic product thinking with open-source advocacy, he also runs community initiatives through Silex Labs and focuses on eco-conscious, maintainable web architecture.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer in Electronics and Computer Science, 1 year specialization in computer vision, graduated magna cum laude, congratulations of the jury, Engineer in Electronics and Computer Science, 1 year specialization in computer vision, graduated magna cum laude, congratulations of the jury at EFREI
German, English, French, Romanian, Spanish
Stackoverflow
108reputation
12kreached
9answers
2questions
Github Skills (200)
ui-components10
npm-package10
slideshow10
ushahidi10
automation10
act10
forestry10
digitalocean10
tauri10
webscraping10
espn10
html10
cloud-services10
static-site-generator10
saas10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
silexlabs/grapesjs-data-source
Aug 2023 - Jun 2026
Data source plugin for GrapesJs to let user design with data from databases, CMS, API
Contributions:2 PRs, 306 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 10 months
cmsdatabasedatabasesgrapesjsgrapesjs-plugin
silexlabs/silex-blank-templates
Oct 2016 - Mar 2022
Contributions:18 PRs, 35 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 6 months
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