Alexandre Macabies - Software Engineer at Google

Alexandre Macabies

Software Engineer at Google

Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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Alexandre 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.

13 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 Reynoard

Diplôme d'ingénieur, Informatique, Diplôme d'ingénieur, Informatique at ENSEIRB-MATMECA

Attestation 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 (28)

C#CElmGoHTMLTypeScriptShellAdblock Filter List

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

Contributions: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.

pythonttki3wmi3barextensible

zopieux/pycmarkgfm

Oct 2020 - Nov 2022

Lightweight Python bindings to GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM) library, with special support for task lists.

Contributions:3 releases, 9 commits, 5 PRs in 2 years 1 month

cmark-gfmgfmmarkdownpython

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