Alexandre Thomas is a seasoned technical architect and founder with 14 years of experience delivering mobile and web solutions for major clients like Orange and Lafarge and building a 100% remote blockchain startup. Based in Noumea, he combines hands-on Android and backend expertise—contributing to projects such as AndroidKickstartR and AndroidAnnotations—with leadership roles as CTO, tech lead and product manager. He has led teams on apps with millions of downloads, run engineering and product at startups (Emblock, Startapp) and launched the first local freelance marketplace Freelances.nc. Pragmatic and cross-disciplinary, Alexandre moves fluidly between architecture, hands-on refactoring and product UX, often tackling robustness and API-level improvements that pay off at scale.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Diplôme d'ingénieur en Informatique, Réseau et Multimédia, Diplôme d'ingénieur en Informatique, Réseau et Multimédia at Polytech Marseille
DEUST GIES (Génie Informatique et Électronique des Systèmes), Informatique, Réseau, Développement, DEUST GIES (Génie Informatique et Électronique des Systèmes), Informatique, Réseau, Développement at Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie
AndroidKickstartR helps you to quickly create a well configured Android application using the most popular libraries. It creates and configures your project for you. Just focus on code!
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Contributions:149 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Alexandre appears to be focused on developing an Android application using the ActionBarSherlock library. Their commits primarily involve setting up the project structure, integrating the ActionBarSherlock library, and configuring the AndroidManifest.xml. The user's work also includes adding support for ViewPager, including fragments, and implementing navigation features like tabs and list navigation within the application. Furthermore, they integrated AndroidAnnotations and updated dependencies.
Contributions summary:Alexandre primarily contributed to the AndroidAnnotations project by addressing bugs and implementing features related to REST API functionality. They added null checks to various click processors to improve robustness and implemented REST method annotations with validators and processors. The user refactored the main REST method that generates REST template blocks and fixed issues related to REST API usage, including improvements to how media types are handled. These changes indicate a focus on improving the project's API capabilities.
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