Alexandre Mutel
VP Of Engineering at DataGalaxy
Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
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Top SchoolAlexandre Mutel is a seasoned VP of Engineering with over 30 years of hands-on software development and 18 years in senior leadership, currently leading engineering at DataGalaxy after a long tenure shaping .NET and tooling at Unity. He combines deep low-level expertise—compilers, language parsers, game engines and SIMD/math libraries—with proven experience delivering and scaling teams responsible for Burst, IL2CPP and .NET runtime integration. A pragmatic architect and mentor, he drives improvements in performance, maintainability and developer experience while establishing strong engineering practices and empathetic team cultures. An active open-source contributor, his work appears in high-profile projects such as Unity.Mathematics and dotnet/runtime, where he optimized math correctness and cross-platform runtime performance. Based in Grenoble, he’s equally comfortable optimizing ARM hash algorithms or refactoring Markdown parsing, and he brings an unusual blend of demo-scene creativity and production-grade system rigor.
18 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Social Work, Bachelor's degree, Social Work at ITSRS Neuilly-Sur-MarneMaster's degree, Computer Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Engineering at INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon
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Github Skills (75)
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Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
scriban/scriban
Jan 2016 - Jan 2023
A fast, powerful, safe and lightweight scripting language and engine for .NET
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 54 reviews, 920 commits in 7 years
Contributions summary:Alexandre's contributions primarily focused on enhancements to the Scriban scripting language. Their work involved implementing new features such as adding semicolon support as a statement separator and the capability to specify a default BuiltinObject within TemplateOptions. Furthermore, the user refactored the class of attribute `ScriptFunctionIgnoreAttribute` to `ScriptMemberIgnoreAttribute` to use it with all members and added the related changes across the code. They also introduced a custom function for converting string to integer.
dotnetscripting-languagetemplatingtemplating-languagetemplating-engine
xoofx/markdig
Feb 2016 - Jan 2023
A fast, powerful, CommonMark compliant, extensible Markdown processor for .NET
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 57 reviews, 863 commits in 7 years
Contributions summary:Alexandre contributed to the Markdig project by improving the parsing logic for Markdown, specifically concerning image links, emphasis, code spans, HTML entities, and list items. They also worked on parsing functionality for other parts of Markdown, such as the title and attributes of links. Their work involved modifying the parsing logic to align with CommonMark specifications and introducing methods for handling the parsing of various inline elements.
commonmarkdotnetmarkdownmarkdown-processormarkdown-parser
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