Alexandre Girard
Senior Engineering Manager at Upflowy
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexandre Girard is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Sydney with 12 years of experience building product-led engineering teams and shipping customer-facing web and mobile products. He co-founded multiple startups (Upflowy, Liftango, Style Atlas, Backseat), scaling engineering from 3 to 25 people and delivering solutions used by hundreds of thousands of users, while navigating fundraising and regulatory diligence. Now leading core Jira experiences at Atlassian, he blends hands-on engineering instincts with strategic product leadership and a bias for fast, high-impact decision-making. His background spans front-end excellence, platform integrations and mobile delivery, and he frequently moves between code, coaching and commercial strategy. An instructor for General Assembly, he also brings a knack for distilling complex technical concepts into teachable practices—an asset for growing high-performing teams.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer sciences, Bachelor Computer sciences at Université Blaise Pascal (Clermont-II) - Clermont-FerrandA levels Mathematics Engineer sciences Management and Sports, A levels Mathematics Engineer sciences Management and Sports at Lycée La FayetteNational Conservatory of Arts and Crafts
French, English
Github Skills (112)
google-places10
react-native-web10
places-autocomplete10
react-android10
cross-platform10
android10
ios10
react-native10
react-dom10
google-places-autocomplete10
react10
javascript9
jquery9
angular9
testing9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
grabcode/react-native-web-starter
Jun 2016 - Apr 2017
Starter for a React Native for Web project (RN4Web)
Contributions:24 commits, 11 PRs, 17 pushes in 10 months
react-nativeweb-projectreact
grabcode/grabber
Jan 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
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