Alexandre Butynski
CTO at makesense
Greater Paris Metropolitan Region France
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Top SchoolAlexandre Butynski is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 14 years of experience building and scaling product-led engineering organizations, most recently leading jobs_that_makesense and previously driving PlayPlay from MVP to a team of 15 and 1000+ customers. He blends hands-on backend expertise—contributing to high-profile open-source projects like the Laravel framework and mongodb/laravel—with strategic ownership of architecture, DevOps, data and security. Comfortable in both startup and consulting environments, he has a rare mix of engineering craft (TDD, CI, cloud ops) and business training from NEOMA Business School. Alexandre is pragmatic about shipping scalable systems and also values people-first team building, having taught agile project management at ESIGELEC. A Franco-Russian-leaning technologist based in Greater Paris, he often bridges product vision and low-level implementation details to accelerate impact-driven missions.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Université d'été, Université d'été at Saint Petersburg State UniversityMaster Grande École Majeure Finance Contrôle et Pilotage, Master Grande École Majeure Finance Contrôle et Pilotage at NEOMA Business SchoolIngénieur Génie des Systèmes d'Information, Ingénieur Génie des Systèmes d'Information at ESIGELEC : ÉCOLE D'INGÉNIEURS-ES GÉNÉRALISTES
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Github Skills (22)
eloquent10
laravel-mix10
testing10
mockery10
laravel10
mongodb-database10
php10
mongodb10
application-framework9
enums9
app-framework9
databases9
orm9
database9
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/laravel-mongodb
Dec 2013 - Oct 2015
A MongoDB based Eloquent model and Query builder for Laravel (Moloquent)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 23 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Alexandre primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the `laravel-mongodb` package. Their contributions included adding the `embedsMany` relationship, refactoring existing methods related to embedded data, and correcting tests to ensure the package's robustness. They addressed several bugs related to order by, and fixed natural ordering issues in tests. The user also modified tests to include new methods and functionality.
querymongophpbuildermoloquent
laravel/framework
Dec 2013 - Jun 2017
The Laravel Framework.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 5 comments in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Alexandre primarily contributed to refactoring and testing the `DatabaseEloquentBuilderTest` class within the Laravel framework. Their work involved replacing PHPUnit mocks with Mockery, ensuring consistent use of collections, and optimizing code through factorization. Additionally, the user added tests for methods such as `pluck`, `chunk`, and `lists` and contributed to refactoring the `runSelect` method within the `Query Builder`. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the framework's test coverage and internal consistency.
laravel-frameworklaravelphpframework
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