Alexandre Collin
Co-Founder at Stealth Startup
Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
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Top SchoolAlexandre Collin is a seasoned product and engineering leader with 14 years of experience building search and discovery products, most recently as Staff SME in Business Strategy & Optimization at Algolia and now co-founding an AI-driven real estate startup. He blends deep technical chops—early work as Algolia’s founding solutions engineer and front-end contributions to popular open-source search UI libraries—with strategic GTM and UX leadership, having pioneered Algolia’s Search UX Center of Excellence. Alexandre has a proven track record translating complex AI and search capabilities into practical, revenue-driving solutions for enterprise customers and partners, and he routinely creates solution guides and training to accelerate adoption. Comfortable switching hats from coding to coaching, he also taught backend development and contributed usable UI improvements to community projects like the github-awesome-autocomplete extension. Based in Bordeaux, he combines startup grit with experience scaling mission-critical systems for Fortune 500 clients and a knack for turning developer-focused APIs into delightful end-user experiences.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
DUT Informatique (=BCompSc), Computer Science, DUT Informatique (=BCompSc), Computer Science at Université Paris CitéMaster’s Degree in Computer Science (MIAGE), Computer Engineering, Master’s Degree in Computer Science (MIAGE), Computer Engineering at Université Paris Dauphine - PSL
English, Polish, French
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Github Skills (8)
opera-extension10
javascript10
webextension10
chrome-extension10
browser-extension10
css9
sass8
html8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
algolia/github-awesome-autocomplete
Dec 2014 - Dec 2014
:octocat: Add instant search capabilities to GitHub's search bar
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 1 comment, 2 issues in 5 days
Contributions summary:Alexandre primarily contributed to the front-end development of the "github-awesome-autocomplete" extension. Their work included adding a button to clear the input field, enhancing the user interface with visual elements like a delete icon, and modifying the popup to improve the user experience. They also integrated the search functionality within the current repository. These changes centered around enhancing the extension's usability and integrating Algolia search functionality within the GitHub interface.
instantsearchsearchbaralgoliachromefirefox
algolia/examples
Sep 2015 - Mar 2017
Set of code samples highlighting the different ways to use the Algolia API
Contributions:42 commits, 4 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year 5 months
algolia
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