Alexandre Faria
Senior Staff Engineer at Indépendant
Greater Lille Metropolitan Area France
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexandre Faria is a Senior Staff Engineer at Decathlon with over 20 years in engineering, currently co-defining technical strategy for a 120+ engineer domain focused on customer growth. He led the company's shift to an API-first architecture, selecting and deploying the core API Gateway and designing a customer-centric authentication platform based on OpenID Connect that protects 200 million accounts across 75+ countries. Hands-on and people-focused, he spends much of his time on code reviews, training engineers worldwide, and has conducted 100+ hiring interviews across Europe. A longtime API evangelist, he blends deep security and CIAM expertise with practical product delivery—having implemented OAuth2/OIDC and UMA solutions for enterprise and banking clients. He champions open-source practices inside large organizations and keeps coding on backend, API, and auth/security topics while mentoring teams toward continuous improvement.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Université Lille 1
French, Portuguese, English
Github Skills (120)
security10
reactive10
async10
api10
scim10
jwt10
openid-connect10
gravitee10
auto-generate10
gateway10
access-management10
openid10
identity-management10
aws10
vertx10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
lusoalex/lusoalex.github.io
Jan 2019 - Mar 2020
Alexandre Faria's personal website : https://lusoalex.github.io
Contributions:20 commits, 40 PRs, 45 pushes in 1 year 1 month
lusoalexjavascriptreact
lusoalex/oauth2-provider
May 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:40 commits, 1 PR, 38 pushes in 1 month
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