Alexandre Hocquard
Staff Engineer at Akeneo
Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France
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Top SchoolAlexandre Hocquard is a Staff Engineer with 10 years of experience based in Nantes, France, specializing in backend systems, performance optimization, and data-driven platforms. At Akeneo he has led API and performance initiatives, built a long-lived public REST API, and designed a production analytics platform from scratch using ELK, Postgres and Grafana while enforcing CI/CD and testing best practices. He combines hands-on development—contributing backend features and robust integration tests to the open-source Akeneo PIM—with team leadership and product-facing technical advising. Known for squeezing up to 10x improvements in critical use cases, he brings a pragmatic mix of scalability, observability, and data engineering to complex SaaS constraints. An engineer comfortable across PHP, Java, Elasticsearch and SQL, he favors measurable outcomes and durable solutions over quick fixes.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Ingénieur informatique, Ingénieur informatique at Ecole d'ingénieur Polytech Nantes
English
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Github Skills (13)
phpunit10
testing10
php10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
mongodb-database9
amazon-elasticsearch9
elasticsearch-api9
aws-elasticsearch9
mongodb9
elasticsearchquery9
elasticsearch9
php-cs-fixer7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
akeneo/pim-community-dev
Sep 2016 - Jan 2023
[Community Development Repository] The open source Product Information Management (PIM)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:411 reviews, 1098 commits, 918 PRs in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Alexandre's primary focus appears to be on contributing to the backend of the Akeneo PIM project. Their work includes implementing features, such as creating integration tests for media attribute copy and fixing Group normalization for MongoDB. The user also actively works on improvements for various features by fixing bugs and performing tests. This demonstrates a dedication to quality and a proficiency in writing and maintaining comprehensive tests.
ziggyinformation-managementjavascriptphpbackbonejs
ahocquard/akeneo-sql-training
Feb 2019 - Dec 2020
Contributions:26 commits, 10 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 10 months
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