Alexandre Balmes is a serial founder and engineering leader based in Lyon with 13 years of hands-on experience building and modernizing critical information systems. As founder of Vanoix, akawaka and D11N Studio he specializes in architecting distributed, domain-driven systems and operationalizing generative AI (RAG, agentic workflows) for production-grade reliability. He combines strategic board-level advising with day-to-day technical leadership—designing cloud-native infrastructures, robust API ecosystems and migration paths for legacy “heart” systems without sacrificing continuity. Alexandre remains a pragmatic craftsperson who rejects gadgetry in favor of durable, economically sound solutions and high engineering standards. An active contributor to civic-tech efforts, he has implemented both front-end and back-end integrations for public initiatives (e.g., signature-tracking tooling on a widely-shared GitHub manifesto site). Fluent in Symfony/PHP stacks and modern AI ops, he blends deep legacy experience with frontier AI productization.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
ConsenSys Academy
Technicien supérieur de support informatique, IT, Technicien supérieur de support informatique, IT at AFPA
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Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:400 commits, 184 PRs, 164 pushes in 10 days
Contributions summary:Alexandre primarily focused on modifying the front-end aspects of the website, likely built with Hugo, by adjusting CSS styling for improved visual presentation. The user also implemented a small JavaScript script to dynamically calculate and display the number of signatories. Furthermore, a Ruby script interacting with the Github API to pull issue data was also introduced, indicating some back-end development/integration. The commits demonstrate both front-end and back-end involvement.
Contributions:1 release, 21 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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