Alexandre Hervé
PHD Student at Institut Pasteur
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexandre Hervé is a Paris-based PhD student and former full stack engineer with 11 years of experience bridging web engineering and bioinformatics. After a decade building production-grade systems—from staff engineering at Dashlane and founding roles at multiple startups to full-stack work at the YC-backed Optic—he’s pivoted into research at Institut Pasteur while keeping strong practical skills in APIs, Remix.js stacks, and OpenAPI tooling. He contributed notable backend improvements to the popular optic/optic project, enhancing OpenAPI cookie parameter support and validation rules. Comfortable across languages and cloud platforms, he combines entrepreneurial product instincts with rigorous engineering and a graduate-level background in bioengineering and nanotechnologies.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Generalist Engineer, Bio-ingénierie et nanotechnologies, Generalist Engineer, Bio-ingénierie et nanotechnologies at Ecole centrale de Lyon
French, English, German
Github Skills (8)
api10
openapi10
apidoc10
typescript-types9
typescript9
javascript9
typescripts9
testing8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
opticdev/optic
May 2022 - Jan 2023
OpenAPI linting, diffing and testing. Optic helps prevent breaking changes, publish accurate documentation and improve the design of your APIs.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & API Developer
Back-end Developer & API DeveloperContributions:47 releases, 94 reviews, 174 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Alexandre primarily contributed to implementing new features and functionalities related to OpenAPI specifications. They focused on adding support for cookie parameters and related rulesets, and extended the OpenAPITraverser to support cookie parameters. Their commits involved modifying various components of the project, including rulesets-base, standard-rulesets, and openapi-utilities, and related testing and documentation updates. The user's work aimed at improving the tools' ability to validate and manage API specifications.
changesapiredocopticfollow
Alexandre-Herve/configs
Oct 2016 - Mar 2024
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 6 months
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