Alex Ligony
Développeur Full Stack at Atipik SA
Carouge, Geneva, Switzerland
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Top SchoolAlex Ligony is a Full Stack Developer based in Carouge, Geneva, with 13 years of engineering experience building web applications and backend systems. He has delivered front-end work in Vue.js and back-end services in Symfony across roles at Atipik, COM & Company and Connected Company, often working in small Agile teams and CI environments. Beyond product work, Alex contributes to notable open-source projects like Cilium/Hubble and FreeBSD's pkg, improving observability, networking reliability and package tooling—experience that surfaces strong systems and DevOps instincts. He also has a track record of low-level contributions such as image decoding enhancements for the quirc QR library and lexer maintenance for Rouge, showing comfort across languages and layers. Passionate about speedcubing and competitive tennis, Alex brings disciplined practice and algorithmic thinking to engineering problems.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Licence, Computer Science, Licence, Computer Science at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1DUT, Computer Science, DUT, Computer Science at IUT Annecy
French, English
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Github Skills (40)
kubernetes10
observability10
lib10
lexer10
ebpf10
package-management10
freebsd10
c1110
networking10
ruby10
c1710
security10
package-manager-tool10
jpeg10
go10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
dlbeer/quirc
Jul 2016 - May 2021
QR decoder library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:38 reviews, 28 commits, 28 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the `quirc` QR code decoder library by adding support for decoding different image formats, specifically JPEG and PNG. They introduced functions to load and process these image types, modifying existing code to accommodate the new features. Additionally, the user implemented support for different data types and fixed decoding logic. They also refactored code, improved comments, and optimized existing processes.
qrcodepdf417decoderdatamatrixean13
cilium/hubble
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
Hubble - Network, Service & Security Observability for Kubernetes using eBPF
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:343 reviews, 31 commits, 156 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to improving the functionality and maintainability of the `hubble` project. This included refactoring and improving error messages for the observability features. The user also added support for named reserved identities in the observe command, enabling more user-friendly filtering options. Additionally, the user updated dependencies and addressed compatibility issues with the zsh completion scripts.
securitytracingebpfnetworkingobservability
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