Alexandre Menor
Ingeniero De Software at Freelance
Galicia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexandre Menor is a seasoned software engineer based in Galicia with over 25 years of hands-on programming experience and 12 years in professional roles building backend, frontend and infrastructure for high-scale services. At Dinahosting he has delivered everything from Go utilities, REST APIs (Mojolicious, Slim, Dancer2), and domain-management systems to CI/CD, Ansible deployments, ELK observability and Ceph-backed backups, often bridging legacy PHP/Perl stacks with modern tooling. He contributes to notable open-source ecosystems—Homebrew and the popular xbar-plugins repo—working across Perl, Ruby, Shell and Go to integrate system tooling and internationalized packages. Comfortable troubleshooting thousands of Linux servers and implementing distributed components (RabbitMQ, Spark, Hadoop), he also brings practical DevOps chops such as packaging .deb deployments and Docker-based dev environments. A polyglot developer with experience in localization and protocol-level integrations (EPP, SOAP, XML-RPC), he pairs deep systems knowledge with a knack for pragmatic automation and operational reliability.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Grado en Ciencia política y de la Administración, Grado en Ciencia política y de la Administración at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)German, German at Escola Oficial de IdiomasCiclo Formativo de Grado Superior, Desarrollo de aplicaciones multiplataforma, Ciclo Formativo de Grado Superior, Desarrollo de aplicaciones multiplataforma at IES San ClementeGrao en Enxeñaría Informática, Grao en Enxeñaría Informática at Universidad de Santiago de CompostelaIngeniería técnica en INFORMÁTICA DE SISTEMAS (PLAN 2000), Ingeniería técnica en INFORMÁTICA DE SISTEMAS (PLAN 2000) at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia - U.N.E.D.
Galician, French, English
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Github Skills (30)
tooling10
package-management10
scripting10
bitbar10
bash10
homebrew-cask10
perl10
plugin10
ruby10
homebrew10
xmobar10
script10
localization10
sh10
software-packaging10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
matryer/xbar-plugins
Jan 2016 - Mar 2022
Plugin repository for xbar (the BitBar reboot)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 13 commits, 12 PRs in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Alexandre contributed to the development of various plugins for xbar, a tool for displaying information in the macOS menu bar. Their work includes implementing plugins for system information such as battery and bandwidth, and for interacting with external services, such as a VPN. The user's contributions span multiple languages including Perl, Ruby, and Shell scripting. They also focused on the integration with external APIs and tools.
bitbarxbarplugins
Homebrew/legacy-homebrew
Jan 2015 - Mar 2016
💀 The former home of Homebrew/homebrew (deprecated)
Role in this project:Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:15 commits, 24 PRs, 23 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Alexandre primarily contributed to the maintenance and updating of the Galen formula within Homebrew. Their work involved updating the Galen version across multiple releases, modifying the formula with changes to URLs, checksums, and the `galen_wrapper` script. Furthermore, the user introduced an update to the bash completion script for the `brew search` subcommand. This user appears to be ensuring the Galen project is readily installable and up-to-date via Homebrew.
homebrew
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