Alexandre Dufournet
Consulting Staff Software Engineer at The Guardian
Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexandre Dufournet is a Consulting Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience and a 20-year industry perspective on building highly available, low-maintenance architectures. Based between Nantes and London, he has delivered front-end and full-stack solutions at scale for organizations like The Guardian, iAdvize and Visier, and recently contributed newsletter UX and A/B testing improvements to The Guardian's prominent frontend repository. He combines pragmatic engineering with architectural leadership, guiding teams through upgrades, compilation fixes and feature rollouts that minimize operational overhead. Comfortable across European and North American environments, he brings a track record of reliably shipping production-facing experiences and an appetite for subtle UX improvements that drive measurable engagement.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Diplôme universitaire de technologie Computer Science, Diplôme universitaire de technologie Computer Science at University of Pau and Adour Countries
French, English
Github Skills (6)
javascript10
ab-testing10
abtest10
html9
css9
react8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
guardian/frontend
May 2016 - Mar 2021
The Guardian DotCom.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:70 reviews, 108 commits, 149 PRs in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Alexandre primarily focused on front-end development tasks, specifically related to the newsletter signup feature within The Guardian DotCom repository. Their contributions included adding newsletter links to navigation and footer sections, adjusting the design and functionality of newsletter forms, and implementing A/B testing for different newsletter embed designs. They also worked on updating the library versions and fixing the compilation errors that came as a result.
productionguardian
alexduf/gnome-github-notifications
Oct 2016 - Jun 2022
integrate github's notifications within the gnome desktop environment
Contributions:6 reviews, 30 commits, 26 PRs in 5 years 8 months
gnomedesktop-environmentnotificationsdesktopintegrate
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