Alexandre Rieux
Engineering Lead at Ben
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlexandre Rieux is an Engineering Lead with 12 years' experience building scalable web and data platforms, currently leading engineering at Ben after recent head-of-engineering roles. He blends hands-on Python and JavaScript development with systems architecture—designing event-driven services, AWS migrations (ECS/Fargate/Terraform/Lambda) and Kafka-based data pipelines. He has a strong front-end pedigree (React, TypeScript) and OSS contributions that include React-Leaflet component work and improvements to danger-js, showing comfort across UI and core platform logic. Known for turning outsourced teams into high-performing in-house organisations, he’s driven measurable growth (5x sales in 2022) and high retention through engineering culture and observability practices. A functional-programming enthusiast, he pairs pragmatic delivery with a taste for elegant, testable code and cross-discipline collaboration.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Design and Integration of Multimedia Products, Bachelor's degree Design and Integration of Multimedia Products at Université du Québec en OutaouaisMaster's Degree Second Year Information Technology Project Management, Master's Degree Second Year Information Technology Project Management at IMIETwo-year university degree in technology Multimédia and Internet Professions, Two-year university degree in technology Multimédia and Internet Professions at Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse IIIMaster's Degree First Year Front-end development / Interface design, Master's Degree First Year Front-end development / Interface design at Université Rennes 2
English, French
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Github Skills (16)
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javascript10
danger10
front-end-development10
api-design10
react10
typescript-types9
testing9
typescript9
cil9
typescripts9
github-ci8
code-review8
githubaction-workflow8
apache-kafka6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
alex3165/react-leaflet-draw
Dec 2015 - May 2021
React component for leaflet-draw on top of react-leaflet
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:69 commits, 15 PRs, 52 pushes in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Alexandre primarily contributed to the front-end of the `react-leaflet-draw` repository. Their work involved enhancing the example code, specifically adding support for different events and modifying the edit control functionality. These changes included explicitly defining draw and position properties and incorporating event handling for created, edited, and deleted features within the leaflet draw component, further illustrating their focus on component implementation and user interaction.
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danger/danger-js
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
⚠️ Stop saying "you forgot to …" in code review
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 4 PRs, 12 comments in 28 days
Contributions summary:Alexandre primarily contributed to the codebase by modifying core platform logic. They focused on API improvements, error handling, and improving consistency. Additionally, they worked on fixing tests and adding test coverage for specific components. The contributions span across multiple files, suggesting a broad understanding of the project's architecture.
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