Alexandre Lavigne
Software Engineer at Datadog
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolAlexandre Lavigne is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building backend systems and cloud-native infrastructure, currently at Datadog after roles in DevOps and software engineering at Scaleway and Scality. He brings practical expertise in S3-compatible storage, Kubernetes probes, and observability pipelines, and has contributed meaningful fixes and features to notable open-source projects like Zenko CloudServer and the popular gspread Google Sheets Python API. Comfortable across embedded, backend, and DevOps domains, he pairs low-level problem solving (Linux scheduler work and embedded gateway fixes) with production-ready infrastructure changes. A pragmatic collaborator who values clear communication and “doing it right the first time,” he also has a curious DIY streak and spent three years traveling across Oceania, which sharpened his adaptability. Based in Paris, he combines academic grounding from Pierre and Marie Curie University with hands-on contributions that improve stability, metrics, and test coverage in open-source ecosystems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
DUT informatique Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management, DUT informatique Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management at Université Paris Nord- Paris 13BTS IRIS Network and System Administration/Administrator, BTS IRIS Network and System Administration/Administrator at JacquardMaster's degree Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology, Master's degree Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology at Pierre and Marie Curie University
English, French
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Github Skills (32)
monitoring10
kubernetes10
javascript10
google-sheets-api10
python10
spreadsheet10
kubernetes-pods10
nodejs10
devops10
metric10
scripting9
cicd9
apidoc9
cloud-infrastructure9
api9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
burnash/gspread
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Google Sheets Python API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:38 releases, 328 reviews, 279 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Alexandre contributed to the Google Sheets Python API, primarily focusing on extending the functionality of the library. They added features such as cell merging, note insertion and clearing, and methods to update the spreadsheet time zone and locale. Additionally, the user implemented the ability to expand a cell range, enhancing the library's ability to manage data. They also improved the library's stability and functionality by fixing bugs and adding tests.
apigoogle-sheetsgoogle-sheets-apipythongoogle
scality/cloudserver
Sep 2021 - Mar 2022
Zenko CloudServer, an open-source Node.js implementation of the Amazon S3 protocol on the front-end and backend storage capabilities to multiple clouds, including Azure and Google.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:52 reviews, 32 commits, 7 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Alexandre contributed to the backend logic by fixing time computation issues in tests and converting nanoseconds to seconds for metric measurement. They also implemented infrastructure changes, adding a script to push dashboards to the registry and updating the liveness/readiness probes for Kubernetes. Furthermore, the user reverted a push server health check route and renamed health check routes to match Kubernetes probe names.
zenkostorageawsfront-endmultiple-clouds
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