Alexandre Duval is a pragmatic backend developer with 10 years of experience, currently building cloud-native services at Clever Cloud from Normandy, France. He holds a Master's in Information Technology from INSA Rouen and began his engineering path with a DUT from Le Havre, blending solid academic grounding with practical production work. An active open-source contributor, Alexandre has contributed Java/Avro schema verification, namespace offload policies, and auth fixes to the high-profile Apache Pulsar project, showing expertise in distributed messaging and tiered storage. Optimistic and eager to learn, he pairs strong systems-level problem solving with a collaborative approach to improving reliability and security in large-scale platforms.
10 years of coding experience
DUT Informatique, Informatique, DUT Informatique, Informatique at Université Le Havre Normandie
Master's degree, Information Technology, Master's degree, Information Technology at Institut national des Sciences appliquées de Rouen
Apache Pulsar - distributed pub-sub messaging system
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:34 reviews, 13 commits, 31 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Alexandre contributed to the Apache Pulsar project by implementing schema parsing verification and compatibility checks, using Java and Avro. They introduced new functionality to offload policies per namespace, impacting the tiered storage features. The user also addressed authentication and authorization issues, modifying server-side connection logic and expanding authorization capabilities. Further contributions include fixing a typo and supporting new routes.
Contributions:84 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 8 months
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