Alexandre Macabies
Software Engineer at Google
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexandre Macabies is a software engineer with 14 years of experience, currently building scalable systems at Google from his base in Zurich. His background spans security-focused work at CEA, full-stack web and backend development with Python/Django, Java EE, and system administration, plus hands-on internships that ranged from embedded watch development to 3D printing. He contributes to open-source tooling—improving the py3status i3status wrapper’s MPD module with robust templating and formatter refactors—demonstrating attention to maintainability and user-facing customization. Comfortable across backend, security, and infrastructure domains, he combines academic engineering training from ENSEIRB-MATMECA with practical contest and volunteer experience at Prologin. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who prefers clean, reusable solutions and quietly improves tooling that power daily workflows.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalauréat scientifique général, SVT, option physique, Baccalauréat scientifique général, SVT, option physique at Lycée Marie ReynoardDiplôme d'ingénieur, Informatique, Diplôme d'ingénieur, Informatique at ENSEIRB-MATMECAAttestation de parcours de formation, Mathématiques et physique, Attestation de parcours de formation, Mathématiques et physique at Lycée Champollion
French, English, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
string-formatting10
i3-config10
string-format10
python10
stat10
slstatus10
i310
apidoc7
api7
Programming languages (32)
Github contributions (5)
ultrabug/py3status
Jan 2015 - Aug 2015
py3status is an extensible i3status wrapper written in python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 8 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Alexandre primarily focused on enhancing the `mpd_status` module. They implemented features allowing customization of state characters, introduced a `format_fallback` parameter for handling missing metadata, and refactored the code to use a custom string formatter. Further improvements included removing the `format_fallback` functionality using an "mpc-like" templating approach and fixing minor bugs with code style improvements.
pythoni3wmi3statusi3bar
zopieux/zopieux.github.io
Nov 2021 - May 2026
Contributions:43 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
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